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Co-op also posts second-highest earnings of $182 million.

There will be a greater incentive to cull low producers this month and next as lower milk prices make their way through the system.

If manure smells like money -- and in February 2012 the commodity markets say it does -- then Sioux County is one of the wealthiest places in America.Truckloads of cows and pigs rumble south every day on Highway 75 on their way to slaughterhouses in Omaha and Dakota City, Neb. Profit flows back into the towns of Rock Valley, Hull, Sioux Center and Orange City.

Cooperatives Working Together has accepted 17 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Michigan Milk Producers Association and United Dairymen of Arizona.

The largest losses came from herds with 50 to 99 cows, down 1,000 herds.

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.