As producers and ranchers faced persistent drought conditions and rising operating costs in recent years, many responded by ...

The October Federal Order Class III milk price headed down. The Agriculture Department announced the benchmark price at $22.85 per hundredweight (cwt.), is down 49 cents from September but $6.01 above ...

The cost of doing that now is not really going to pencil in at current milk prices ... raised by 55 cents to $18.40 per cwt. Economists point out that while the milk price forecast is on the ...

September margins, reported by USDA’s Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program hit an all-time high in September of $15.57/cwt., ...