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National average test-day herd SCC has declined every year since 2005, and every year except one since 2001.

Averages slipped from month-earlier levels but were higher than January 2012 numbers.

The mobile app features an easy to use heat stress calculator for inputting the current temperature and humidity readings.

The House Ag panel is expected to begin drafting a Farm Bill next Wednesday.

Cooperatives Working Together has accepted six requests for export assistance from Bongards and Darigold to sell 860 metric tons of Cheddar, Gouda and Monterey Jack cheese.

The acquisition will increase focus on quality of supplies amid safety concerns in China’s dairy industry.

The cooperative’s Alma Center, Wis., plant will close permanently and its Waumandee, Wis., cheddar cheese plant will be idled indefinitely.

‘What processors claim is a compromise is nothing more than a costly ruse.’ --National Milk Producers Federation

It’s the first U.S. casein production in more than 50 years.

Closure of slaughter plant in Quebec, Canada last year could be distorting U.S. cow slaughter numbers.