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A bill to be introduced Feb. 21 in both houses of the Texas Legislature would allow raw milk producers to make home deliveries of their product and sell it at farmers’ markets.

2010 overseas dairy shipments up 40% from 2009.

Purchase price is $270.5 million for Saputo, 12th largest dairy processor in the world.

The major food and beverage company expects dairy prices to climb through first half of 2011 before flattening out or declining in third and fourth quarters.

8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.

In Britain, surging grocery prices are painful, but not life-threatening. For much of the rest of the world, by contrast, food prices are a matter of life and death.

The January report also revealed that Idaho moved up to the Number 3 milk producing state in 2010, out producing New York by 66 million pounds of milk.

Consumers reported a slight preference for the nutritionally enhanced (California) milk over the federal standard milk overall (44% vs. 42%)

Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.

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