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Purchase price is $270.5 million for Saputo, 12th largest dairy processor in the world.

The major food and beverage company expects dairy prices to climb through first half of 2011 before flattening out or declining in third and fourth quarters.

8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.

In Britain, surging grocery prices are painful, but not life-threatening. For much of the rest of the world, by contrast, food prices are a matter of life and death.

The NMPF analysis shows that dairy farmers would have received at least $3 billion more revenue had the stabilization program been in place in 2009.

Michigan dairies share experiences

A coalition of 90 agricultural businesses have sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging Congress to let the refundable Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit expire and to resist calls for spending on infrastructure for conventional biofuels.

The January report also revealed that Idaho moved up to the Number 3 milk producing state in 2010, out producing New York by 66 million pounds of milk.

Consumers reported a slight preference for the nutritionally enhanced (California) milk over the federal standard milk overall (44% vs. 42%)

Modest herd expansion, robust exports also expected.