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Milk prices will hit fodder market: AFIA
The Australian Fodder Industry Association is concerned about the knock on effects of low milk prices.
Angry farmers halt national highway traffic over milk prices
Czech dairy farmers took to the highways Monday morning to bring the nation's traffic to a snail's pace for two hours.
Business News: Jobs boost for 300 after Tesco creamery deal
HUNDREDS of jobs will be created and secured after the Scottish government doled out a 3.9million grant to a dairy co-op. First Milk are to build a new creamery in Campbeltown, Argyll, keeping 100 people and 42 dairy farms in work.
Australian dairy farmer raided for 'animal cruelty'
Fonterra has cancelled its supply contract with a Tasmanian dairy farmer who faces animal cruelty allegations.
Tough Times For Organic Farms as Organic Milk Sales Fall 15%
The Boston Globe reports that organic milk sales have plunged this year. The Globe says sales are expected to drop 15% in 2009 compared to 2008.
State farmers' milk prices keep edging down
Wisconsin farmers received an average price of $11.60 per hundredweight for their milk in May, $7.50 less than in May 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.
Dumping milk to protest low prices
Bill Kettelkamp holds Tanner Rosdail, son of another local dairy farmer, as he shuts off the flow of milk during a protest in which the farm dumped some of its milk in protest of low milk prices on Sunday.
Bid info may bolster case for Dean's to be Brookfield school milk vendor
When Joseph Pasquerilla argued that Dean's Dairy Products Co. should get Brookfield Local School District's milk contract, he had not seen the bids tendered by Dean's and Turner Dairy Farms Inc.
Cow kill-off to double milk prices
Dino Giacomazzi, whose great-grandfather started the Giacomazzi Dairy in Hanford, Calif., in 1893, said he had no choice but to sell 100 cows, or 11 percent of his herd, in the past four months.
One La. dairy uses ice cream to deal with prices
Kleinpeter Farms occupies two of the three roles, milking its own cows and processing the milk, though it also gets milk from independent Louisiana dairy farms.
Bidders from 12 states are expected to attend the Maryland auction of rare dairy supplies, unique milk bottles and cream separators.
Oswestry farmers hit by milk co-op collapse
DAIRY farmers in the region are facing hard times following the collapse of a major co-operative milk processor.
Slowdown in once-booming organics troubles farmers
The organic dairy industry was thriving when Allen and Jean Moody bought a 200-acre Wisconsin dairy farm in 2006 and joined the ranks of farmers churning out milk raised without growth hormones, pesticides or other chemicals.
Plummeting Price Of Milk Leaves Dairy Farms Struggling For Profit
Cows wait to be milked at the Faria Dairy Farm in Escalon, California. As milk prices continue to plummet due to a weakening international and national demand, dairy farmers across the U.S. are struggling to turn a profit prompting many to sell off their cattle for slaughter and turn fields into corn crops.
Outlook for global dairy markets underwhelms Rabobank
The near-term outlook for global dairy markets continues to underwhelm, says a report just released by Rabobank.
Gillibrand Targets Low Milk Prices
According to Farm Credit, it costs dairy farmers $17.58 to produce a hundredweight of milk.
Gillibrand to Unveil Plan Helping Dairy Farmers
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will unveil proposals today to help the state's struggling dairy farmers.
Farmers blockade EU meeting over prices
Tuesday, June 23 06:26:22 Hundreds of tractors driven by farmers angry about low food and milk prices snarled up roads around central Luxembourg yesterday as European Union ministers met to discuss future changes to farm policy.
Argentine farmers pray for winds of change
It's wheat sowing season on Argentina's Pampas plains, but farmers are biding their time -- praying for rain and a government defeat in Sunday's mid-term election.
Morning Milk Could Help Stave Off Lunchtime Hunger
New research finds reaching for fat free milk instead of a fruit drink at breakfast helps you feel fuller and eat less at lunchtime Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.