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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. cattle futures slumped Wednesday [April 20] after an animal-welfare group released a grisly video depicting dairy calves on a Texas ranch being killed with a hammer and pickaxe.

Just 8,100 fewer dairy cows sent to slaughter in 2010.

If you have Staph. aureus infections on your dairy, you are faced with limited treatment options.

Raising the DCAD of lactating diets to between +35 and +45 milliequivalents/100 grams of dry matter has a positive effect on milk and fat.

If 400,000 SCC limit would be implemented today, some 8% to 14% of U.S. herds would not be in compliance.

Pre-conditioning first-calf heifers with parlor walk-throughs reduces anxiety and the failure of milk let down.

A Washington dairy producer explains the options that allow him to put the best feed where it will have the greatest return.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted five requests for export assistance from Bongards Creamery, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, and Foremost Farms

The National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) is moving forward with a National Milk Producer Federation proposal

Third-party verification of animal welfare, other on-farm practices to begin this summer.