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At the Litchfield academy, Lloyd Metzger, a dairy food scientist at South Dakota State, explains what’s required to produce and sell high quality milk.

Dairy’s baseline is $432 million over the next 10 years. That sounds like a big number. But not when it comes to government expenditures.

Lely introduces a robotic TMR mixer/feeder/pusher all-in-one, hands-free robotic machine.

But unfortunately, we have seen a decline in fluid milk sales, so we have to continue to find new ways to promote the product.

Retailers and consumers have demanded quality, and dairymen across the country are improving their on-farm techniques to meet this demand.

Co-op officials don’t expect many, if any, farms to go out of business as a result of non-compliance since they expect USDA will readily grant derogations.

CWT has accepted eight requests for export assistance from Bongards, Darigold, Foremost Farms and United Dairymen of Arizona.

The new dairy supply management program in the farm bill will hurt exports, encourage imports and limit job growth, say dairy processors.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A dramatic increase in the price of hay and corn and low milk prices are putting some New Mexico dairies out of business.Dairy Producers of New Mexico President Luke Woelber tells the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/L7ZCIv ) that he knows of five dairies in the eastern and southern part of the state that have closed in the face of feed costs that have doubled in the past few years.

Editor:As a dairyfarmer in Pennsylvania for the past 30 years, I’ve lived through the ups and downs of this extremely volatile industry. In the past decade, dairyfarmers have experienced the highs of 2008 and 2010 and the extreme lows of 2003, 2006 and 2009, which was the worst year in the lifetime of most dairyfarmers, because the price we received for milk plummeted while production costs reached all-time high levels.