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South Dakota produced 2 billion lb. of milk in 2013 compared to Missouri’s 1.3 billion pounds.

With milk prices near a record, it costs Fonterra more to make other products with the milk it can’t process into powder.

“No one country has any right to own common food names for their exclusive use.” -- NMPF’s Jim Mulhern

As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the U.S.

“This is the first market I’ve worked in where food safety is a more important consideration than price.” -- Rob Chester, chief compliance officer at Wal-Mart in China.

Despite a decline in dairy farms in Vermont, agriculture officials say milk production is constant and farmers are getting record-high prices for their milk.

The higher prices come after paying farmers increases of almost 15% for milk deliveries in the past two months.

The animals appeared to have starved to death.

To build trust and have the social license to operate, dairies must convey shared values – rather than science -- to consumers.

The charges against the New Zealand dairy giant stemmed from last year’s botulism scare.