Food safety scandals in China have badly damaged consumer confidence, particularly in the dairy industry.
In recent years, two new factors have significantly contributed to price volatility in the dairy industry.
But life in the dairy industry is tough, and unlikely to get easier.
Cuomo has urged the state's congressional delegation to support creation of a new guest-worker program for the dairy industry.
But the new regime will still leave huge subsidies to the dairy industry.
Unfortunately, it was created when the dairy industry was less efficient and less mechanized, making it costlier to operate.
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The dairy industry is unique in this nation, and it is also something that affects most American households on a daily basis.
The butter sculptures are tied into the dairy industry to promote dairy products, he added, and most of his butter comes from Land O'Lakes.
Mr Davies said the dairy industry needed "profitability and long-term stability".
Had it defined itself as a nutrition provider rather than a milk producer, the dairy industry could have shifted its focus from production to marketing.
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Clwyd West AM Darren Millar asked the Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes Alun Davies AM for more details on the government's support for the dairy industry.
When I read these I realized that even though I cover food avidly and know a lot about many forms of food production, I was virtually ignorant about the dairy industry.
Mr Edwards has questioned Ms Gwyther in the Assembly chamber on what plans she had to discuss the future of the dairy industry in Wales, following publication of the MMC report.
Galen says when you pile that on top of high fuel prices and last year's low milk prices, it has been hard for the dairy industry to respond to the growing demand.
That passion was inflamed when he began taking his young daughter to a day care facility at a nearby family farm, raising all sorts of questions and red flags about the dairy industry.
Sources within the dairy industry dismissed talk of a milk shortage as a scare story, put about to frighten dairy companies into making price concessions just as negotiations get under way for long term supply contracts.
At a time when the dairy distribution industry was dominated by home delivery services, Carl H.
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Pete Nicholson, Wiseman's milk procurement director, said Muller was ambitious to grow and play an even greater role in the UK dairy industry.
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In light of the pending dairy cliff and the competing interests of the industry and consumers, perhaps the best course of action is for the USDA to issue temporary rules to avert a spike in prices, but those rules should be set to expire once permanent rules can be crafted through the formal (and transparent) rule making process.
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While the industry is seeing the number of dairy farms contract, the number of animals per herd is increasing, indicating a concentration of the industry as fewer, larger units develop.
Sadly, I knew nothing about dairy bulls and the milk industry.
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Occasionally, comics-industry types assert that comics are good at telling stories in lots of different genres, which misses the big picture in the same way as a dairy-industry type insisting that milk can be made into lots of different flavors of ice cream.
Hassan Radmard, head of trade development at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said Monday that the increase in prices of poultry and dairy products was a result of difficulties in buying animal feed, transporting goods from ports and completing financial transactions because of sanctions, official student news agency ISNA reported.
Agriculture is now the island's main industry, and dairy farming is its most competitive business.
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Mr Rowbottom said he left dairy farming 15 months ago, partly due to the state of the industry, but still runs an agricultural feed business alongside a sheep farm at Ipstones.
On Thursday morning, Mr Richards announced he would be selling up his own dairy herd as he could no longer afford to continue in the industry, an example that underlines the seriousness of the situation.
With per-capita U.S. milk consumption down 36% between 1970 and 2011, an industry trade group spokesman recently admitted something everybody already knew: The dairy business is in trouble.
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Dairy UK said its deal with the National Farmers Union would foster greater trust within the industry.
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