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With European partner, the New Zealand company will establish a new cheese plant and a dairy ingredients factory in the Netherlands to supply its European and Asian customers.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 14 requests for export assistance from Darigold, Foremost Farms, Land O’Lakes, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative and United Dairymen of Arizona.

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.

Petitions contend the state’s producers are losing millions of dollars due to an undervalued whey factor in California’s milk pricing system. One cheesemaker calls the petitions’ demands “obscene.”

The dairy portion of the bill eliminates milk price supports and the Milk Income Loss Contract program.

USDA also reported that veal production is at a record low

She replaces Peggy Biltz, who is retiring after spending 27 years with Dairy Council of CA, 22 as chief executive officer.

We’ve done a little freshening of our own.

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.