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The program is open to students planning a career in dairy, either as a producer or in numerous related fields, such as veterinary medicine or dairy nutrition.

Maker of robotic milking systems to build new North American headquarters and production site in Pella, Iowa.

Maintaining active composting in a compost-bedded pack barn is a real challenge during the winter months. Here’s advice on how to handle it.

French dairy group Sodiaal has reached an agreement to acquire struggling domestic rival Entremont Alliance. The move creates a dairy giant with over 7,000 employees and sufficient scale to participate in the ongoing consolidation in the European dairy sector.

It’s cleanup and rebuilding time for the Arkansas farming community after a New Year’s Eve tornado. A dairy farmer was among the dead.

SEATTLE -- After 70-some years and four generations of milking cows in Washington’s Snohomish Valley, the Bartelheimers were the latest in a long list of dairy families who have called it quits. But the long, low barns had been empty for less than a week last month when the cows came home again.Today, the dairy is in operation as one of four rented locations Jeremy and Jerald Visser are using to expand their herd.

Yes - Zippy Duvall, president, Georgia Farm Bureau - Americans enjoy the safest, most diverse and affordable food supply of any nation in recorded history. No - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation - Farm subsidies are outdated, unnecessary and unaffordable.

The 2011 all-milk price is forecast to average $16.10/cwt. to $16.90/cwt.

Gov. Jerry Brown appoints longtime agricultural advocate Karen Ross to head California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.

State ag director Katy Coba looks forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.