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USDA report says high feed costs offsetting high milk prices, only slight herd growth expected.

America’s huge trade deficit with China has raised concerns about U.S. competitiveness and about jobs’ moving overseas. But a new study offers a glimmer of hope to Americans: Last year, U.S. exports to China soared 32 percent, to a record level of $91.9 billion.

Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and 25 of his House colleagues called on President Barack Obama to release willing farmers from their Conservation Reserve Program

EPA analysis shows a level of 8.9 picoCuries of iodine-131 (I-131) per liter of milk.

Cow numbers are also up an estimated 76,000 (0.8%) over a year ago and 17,000 head over February.

Negotiating is a skill producers must learn for consistent business success.

• Fever tick inspections move to Texas By Julian AguilarThe Texas TribuneLAREDO - An unexpected casualty of the drug-cartelfueled lawlessness in Mexico: the cattle industry.At a temporary inspection site in the industrial sector of Laredo, home to the country’s largest inland port, the lowing of cows has been heard not far from the purring of the tractortrailers that haul millions of dollars worth of goods from Mexico each day.

U.S. dairy producers sent 268,000 dairy cows to slaughter through Federally inspected plants in March

Dairy demand improves as economy recovers.

The divestiture is part of the recent Department of Justice settlement.