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Total costs, excluding labor and management, are running about $17.63/cwt for tie stall herds and right at $16 for midsized freestall operations.

Cow numbers were down 4,000 head from April, however.

“No consistent evidence that checkoff funded projects were more likely to support an obesity prevention benefit from dairy consumption.”

The suit began in late 2004, when a Louisia farmer alleged that Cargill had switched feed ingredients in a customized dairy feed.

The brand will be managed by FGI and sold through existing Garst®, Golden Harvest® or NK® brand alfalfa resellers.

Year-to-date, nearly 1.3 million cows have been sent to slaughter in Federally inspected plants in 2012.

The Alpena County farm is quarantined, and no cattle may enter or leave the premises until testing clears the cattle and farm of the disease.

The Senate is expected to begin debating this and other amendments to the Farm Bill this week.

The new $3 million facility will manufacture the company’s encapsulated lysine, marketed under the name LysiPEARLTM.

“We are on track to create a standalone Animal Health company by our previously stated target of July 2013.” --Ian Read, Pfizer Chairman and CEO