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Dairyline: Top 23 production ticks up higher
April milk production in the top 23 states hit 15.98 billion pounds, up 3.3 percent from April 2011, according to preliminary data in the Agriculture Department's latest Milk Production report. Revisions lowered the initial March estimate to 16.4 billion, still 4.3 above a year ago. The April 50-s ...
Outreach effort puts face to dairy farmers
Washington dairy operators will make appearances at grocery stores across the state as part of the industry's Dairy Month promotion.
Stephanie Littrel of Deer Park, Wash., will be at a Yoke's Fresh Market in Spokane Valley on June 1.
"I think it helps for people to actually be able to talk to (d ...
Maryland police: Man, 2 sons found dead in manure pit
KENNEDYVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Maryland authorities are trying to find out how a man and his two teenage sons fell into a manure pit and died at the dairy farm where they worked. State Police said Thursday it's not clear how the three victims became submerged in the manure pit in Kennedyville ...CDFA analysis in line with dairy groups on whey value
Dairy producer groups granted a hearing by the California Department of Food and Agriculture to raise the whey value in the minimum pricing formula for Class 4b say an analysis by the department confirms their position. Producers contend the whey value in the formula for milk going into the ...Milk production continues to increase in Wisconsin, Minnesota
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Milk production continues to improve in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where dairy farmers had a stronger April this year than they did last year. Wisconsin harvested 2.3 billion pounds last month. That's up 4 percent from the total yield in April 2011. And in Minnesota, pr ...Milk production rises, analysts watch global trade
U.S. milk production rose again in April, up 3.3 percent from April 2011, and is up 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2012. Milk production is also increasing globally. Worldwide, milk production has been much higher than one year ago for the past several months. There's been double-digit inc ...Small dairies go under as milk prices sink again
PLAINFIELD, Vt. (AP) -- The MacLaren brothers are third-generation dairy farmers, but they will likely be the last in their family.
After working all their lives on the hillside farm in Vermont that their grandfather bought in 1939, rising to milk cows at 3 a.m., even in blizzards and sub-zer ...