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An Idaho dairy has filed a lawsuit against its former bookkeeper, claiming she stole $700,000 over the seven years she served as the dairy’s chief financial officer.

The fight on whether alternatives can be labeled ‘milk’ rages on while dairy processors like Chobani produce coconut products and HP Hood makes Planet Oat.

Cornell University’s Jason Karszes shares one approach to model the financial impact that different management performance within the replacement program can have on the replacement businesses and the overall dairy.

Ideal stocking rates vary depending on facilities and management, and require a balance between cow well-being and economics.

Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings aren’t on the rise, but one attorney said it’s because many farmers don’t quality for Chapter 12 today, and recently introduced legislation could change that.

Dean stock is worst 2019 performer versus packaged-food peers, but the milk processor expects to start generating cash after cutbacks.

Dwight Raber, of Raber Dairy Farms in northeast Ohio’s Stark County says he can no longer make a living by milking cows. State statistics show the number of dairy farms in Ohio dropped to fewer than 2,000.

Overall, U.S. milk production was up by 0.2 percent in February from a year earlier. Butter usage in the US has increased by 2 percent from 2018.

Some screenings contained as many as 250 Palmer amaranth seeds per pound of screenings.

Fair Oaks Farms releases its own statement after discovering some employees were actually undercover animal activists.