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New online tools can help Wisconsin farmers know when conditions are right to spread manure on their land

A decade ago, the domestic market for Greek yogurt, a thicker, more protein-laden version of traditional mass-market yogurt, barely existed. Within the past five years, however, it has exploded, and that’s been great news for New York’s dairy farmers. That’s because it can take three pounds of milk to make one pound of yogurt.

OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.

While the U.S., Europe remain the world’s leading cheese producers, other countries are making inroads – and it’s still not enough to meet demand.

California Milk Advisory Board celebrates the nation’s leading dairy producers with Governor’s Proclamation.

CWT accepted 11 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Darigold to sell a total of 1,587 metric tons of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese.

Brad Kamerman’s dairyfarm sits along a dusty and rolling road in western Gallatin County, his black-and-white Holstein cows visible to the occasional passerby. Milking there starts daily at 3 a.m. as cows file into pens where rubber tubes simultaneously do the work of a several farmhands, pumping the milk into refrigerated vats.

KENTWOOD, La., June 14 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:Louisiana dairyfarmers say this was beginning to look like the year they would make a little money, but now they are not so sure.

U.S. dairy cow numbers have rebounded back above 9.2 million head.

Ron Gibson, who milks 1,500 cows and farms 1,200 acres, has about 400 acres of land underwater.