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California’s 1,700 dairies have cut their milk production for eight consecutive months, underscoring what some call the worst economic climate the state’s dairy producers have ever seen.

The pain felt by California’s financially strapped dairy producers was evident yesterday as they gathered to hear about a new growth management program proposed by Holstein USA Association.

Rabobank International has released its annual list of top 20 global dairy companies.

Nominations are now being accepted for the title of the Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year.

Select Sires Inc. has completed a new global production facility in Plain City, Ohio

Harry DeWit of Friona, Texas, was named the 2009 Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year this week at the International Dairy Foods Association’s Dairy Forum 2009.

Dairy producers sent 9,000 fewer cows to federally inspected slaughter plants in November compared to a year ago, a 4% decline, according to USDA’s Livestock Slaughter Report released this morning.