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Dairy prices are up 27% over last year, and beef prices are up nearly 20%. But, 2012 might be a different story as feed costs increase.

Florida reported the highest milk price in the country, at $25.80. Idaho was the lowest, at $19.90.

Milk haulers still have not been able to reach at least four dairy farms in Vermont because of washed out roads and bridges due to Hurricane Irene.

With roads and bridges washed out, milk haulers have had to go to smaller sized trucks that can navigate seasonal roads and even farm and field lanes.

The South American country hits a pothole on the road to becoming a challenger to U.S. dairy export ambitions.

U.S. Department of Transportation walks away from creating new regulations that would be detrimental to agriculture.

Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.

The two congressmen pledge to build a more effective economic safety net for the U.S. dairy industry.

Any large-scale expansion of U.S. ag exports will only be possible if the nation can get more commodities and farm products to market, something some experts say the country already struggles to accomplish.

EMMETSBURG, IOWA - Each fall in corn country, big combines prowl through the fields, stripping the valuable kernels from ears and spitting out bits of cornstalk, leaves and empty cobs.The residue, which used to lie on the ground and rot, has become a money crop for the next generation of biofuel.Poet LLC, the nation’s leading ethanol producer, says it is determined to open a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in 2013 next to its existing corn-ethanol plant in this northern Iowa community. The $250 million project could be the first such plant in the nation. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department conditionally committed to a $105 million loan guarantee for it."The technology is there -- it is definitely to the point where we can build the best-in-class plant, and the trick is getting these plants up,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, which represents many of the approximately dozen U.S. companies working to commercialize cellulosic ethanol.