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Milk powder prices have risen more than 50% since early March, and butterfat and whey prices have posted double-digit increases.

California production was down 3.3% in March from year earlier. Wisconsin, the No. 2 dairy state, was up 3%.

South Dakota alfalfa producers have two new varieties to consider this growing season.

Rain would help ease the most widespread drought in at least 30 years that curbed milk output.

Tool developed by Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.

No additional cases of the disease uncovered at the dairy since initial Jan. 17 discovery.

Improving transition cow health should focus on strategies for reinforcing the cow’s innate immune system, while also limiting environmental and management stressors.

‘We can make a lot more money drying milk and exporting it to China.’ -- CDI CEO Andre Mikhalevsky.

Bringing the dryer online is a milestone for the Seattle-based company after a fire destroyed the dryer in February 2012.

The proposed legislation would allow California dairy producers to petition USDA for a federal order plus allow them to keep the state’s quota entitlement.