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U.S. dairy exports are up 30% to $4.8 billion. Even December export values were up 23% over a year ago, and fourth-quarter sales were up 28%.

CWT has accepted 36 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Upstate-Niagara subsidiary O-AT-KA and United Dairymen of Arizona.

After a judge’s reprimand of a vegan activist group, a Western dairy leader urges dairy families to continue standing up to animal rights “terrorists.”

Pete Kennedy supports what he calls a growing “back-to-local food” movement in America, and considers drinking raw milk one of the biggest parts of it, he said on Friday.

Colorado State University, Oregon State University, Western University of Health Sciences, Washington State University and University of California at Davis are involved in the project.

The updated nutrition standards require that low-fat or fat-free milk remain a part of every school meal.

This allows managers to plan for various contingencies and better manage the situation as compared to having to react to surprising developments.

The Kumamoto Dairy Cooperative Association, a grouping of dairy farmers in Kumamoto Prefecture, is intensifying its efforts to boost milk exports to other Asian countries. At present, milk produced in Hokkaido dominates Japan’s milk export business because of its brand cachet. But milk producers in Kumamoto are striving to blaze a new trail overseas amid the trend toward globalization such as Japan’s possible signing up for the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal.

Consumers are going nuts for almond milk, as it became the fastest growing non-dairy milk alternative in 2011 at the expense of soy milk. According to the latest figures from Packaged Facts, sales of almond milk increased 79 percent in the US last year, while sales of soy milk -- though still the most popular non-dairy milk alternative -- fell 15 percent between 2008 and 2010, reported online trade publication FoodNavigator.com last week.

WESLACO - When a swarm of Africanized honeybees infiltrated the U.S.-Mexico border in 1990, it was detected, destroyed and studied by U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists at the Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center.When Hurricane Alice and a subsequent tropical depression sent floodwaters coursing down the Rio Grande in the historic flood of 2010, it was planes operated by the center that allowed officials to track the river’s swelling.