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Dave Forgey is an Indiana farmer by day, but he’ll be a famous milkman during Memorial Day weekend.

ATaranaki dairy automation specialist is challenging New Zealand academic opinion that denies the relevance here of an American study of LED lights.

No anomalies found at dairies or in feed records.

NMPF working with ag committee leaders to expedite vote in Senate.

To compensate for the difference, dairy producers should delay first cutting, say Michigan State University Extension specialists.

World Dairy Expo to offer free look at eight U.S. dairies Oct. 2-6.

Dan MacSweeney**Position:**chief executive**Age:**56**Family:**married to Miriam with two sons**Hobbies:**team sports.....**Carbery Group****Location:**Ballineen, west Cork**Employees:**520**Turnover:**EUR 256.5 million in 2011**Shareholders:**West Cork Co-Ops (91 per cent), milk suppliers (9 per cent).....The Carbery Group has been based in the picturesque west Cork village of Ballineen since it was established in 1964. But in the intervening years, it has expanded around the world, and now has subsidiaries in south-east Asia, South America, the US and Britain.

Melinda Olson has given her 12-year-old son raw milk for years. When he walked away virtually unscathed from a serious bike accident last year, she credited his healthy diet of raw milkdairy products.Matthew Caldwell fed his 2-year-old son, Owen, raw milk in the spring of 2010. The boy was hospitalized for 13 days, victim of an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak traced to raw milk producer Mike Hartmann.The two parents’ stories are bookends to a debate that is on high boil in Minnesota. One farmer accused of breaking state law barring the off-farm sale of raw milk, Alvin Schlangen, is slated for trial in July. Hartmann was hit with the same criminal milk charge last month, and also faces a civil suit from Caldwell.Raw milk isn’t pasteurized -- heat-treated to kill pathogens. Advocates see it as integral to a superior diet, and decry what they see as heavy-handed attempts to limit its free flow and punish suppliers. “This is about the freedom to choose the foods we want for our families,” said Olson of Richfield.

BouMatic Engineers designed GlacierChill controls to respond to the slightest variation in milk load.

In a trial utilizing four pens of about 320 cows each, UC-Davis graduate student Nadia Swanepoel fed four levels of canola meal.