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Washington farmer charged with animal abuse gets cows back

According to Milk Magazine, Mullins Cheese is picking up eight of the dairies that were recently displaced by Grassland Dairy Products.

19 Minnesota dairy farms affected by US-Canada trade dispute

Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.

On Tuesday, USDA released its cattle inventory report. The report showed there are 4.75 million milk replacement heifers. According to Mike North of Commodity Risk Management Group, that’s more than half of the milking herd.

Nebraska’s wide grasslands, fields of golden corn and gushing aquifers make the state a nearly perfect home for cows that are content to live a quiet life of chewing cud and being milked.

Dairy farmers currently face challenges that prior generations also had to overcome. However, today’s farmers are also facing new challenges. Increased pressure from consumers is not only impacting farmers, but processors, too.

It’s been more than a year of sustained low milk prices. For small farms like Sugar Hill Dairy, a first-generation operation started 15 years ago in Kersey, Colo., that means difficult choices.

The state Senate in Wisconsin is proposing a bill to aid a cheese distributor.

A Wisconsin cheese distributor has been approved for extended tax incentives.