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U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that dairy farmers who were forced to dump milk, due to power outages and washed out roads and bridges preventing transportation, will receive payments at the market value for the milk that they had to dump.

Florida reported the highest milk price in the country, at $25.80. Idaho was the lowest, at $19.90.

Milk haulers still have not been able to reach at least four dairy farms in Vermont because of washed out roads and bridges due to Hurricane Irene.

With roads and bridges washed out, milk haulers have had to go to smaller sized trucks that can navigate seasonal roads and even farm and field lanes.

The Class III price is forecast at $16.10 to $17.10 per cwt. in 2012.

CWT has accepted seven requests for export assistance from Darigold and Dairy Farmers of America to sell Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese.

The New Zealand dairy giant says the global market for organics has changed, seeks to limit losses.

Mike North of First Capitol Ag and Farm Director Al Pell discuss where cheese prices are heading as seasonal consumption starts to pick up.

ONE hundred UK dairyfarmers are testing a scheme that has reduced methane from cows in the US by an average of 12%. If the same results are repeated here, a 12% methane reduction from dairy cows would be equivalent to 660,000 fewer tonnes of CO entering the atmosphere each year - or taking nearly 200,000 cars off the road.

With wheat costing less than corn, dairy operations are adding it to rations.