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For the year, ERS expects the All-Milk price to average from $18.30 to $19.10/cwt.

It makes reporting completely web-based, which will speed the data collection process.

Select Sires reports semen sales last year surpassed 12.8 million units through its member cooperatives and international distributors.

U.S. dairy exports are up 30% to $4.8 billion. Even December export values were up 23% over a year ago, and fourth-quarter sales were up 28%.

CWT has accepted 36 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Upstate-Niagara subsidiary O-AT-KA and United Dairymen of Arizona.

Mexico is the largest overseas market for U.S. milk powder, cheese and ice cream.

But it also cited ongoing concerns about pervasive anti-competitive practices by the New Zealand.

Co-op also posts second-highest earnings of $182 million.

There will be a greater incentive to cull low producers this month and next as lower milk prices make their way through the system.

If manure smells like money -- and in February 2012 the commodity markets say it does -- then Sioux County is one of the wealthiest places in America.Truckloads of cows and pigs rumble south every day on Highway 75 on their way to slaughterhouses in Omaha and Dakota City, Neb. Profit flows back into the towns of Rock Valley, Hull, Sioux Center and Orange City.