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Kids to get skinny on milk, cows. We'll show them what cows eat, and then take them through the milking parlor and the feed salesman," she said, "and when they get done, we'll give them an ice cream bar. Saturday, May 05, 2007 BY DEAN BAKER Dairies are disappearing from Clark County, but the dairy women's organization is still going strong and aims to show a lot of suburban children what a cow looks like and where milk comes from. The group is planning school tours of a milking operation...

Dairy farmers have failed to keep pace with a 3 percent increase in annual milk consumption, according to Rabobank Groep in the Netherlands, the world's biggest agricultural lender. European warehouses, which had 200,000 tons of milk powder in 2003, are empty, according to Erhard Richarts, dairy expert with the Bonn-based market and price reporting agency ZMP. India's gains will range from 3 percent for milk to 7 percent for processed dairy products, he said. Raghuveera Reddy, agriculture...

As the milk bottling industry has consolidated, the traditional relationship between individual dairy producers and a local bottling plant has eroded. But by this week, when the 106-year-old company was sold to a Massachusetts dairy products firm 12 times its size, Crystal's stature in the local farm landscape had faded. One way that Crystal kept its local contracts in recent years was to offer a premium to farmers to not use the synthetic growth hormone rBST, which some inject into cows...

These days, the dairy leases a Vermont farm with 500 cows and transports the milk to Sharon, where it is processed and bottled the same day as delivery. Still, Parrish admits it's a little odd that he runs a dairy farm without any cows. But it's the milk, processed at the farm and stored in old- fashioned glass bottles, that seems to keep the customers. Anyone who has visited Crescent Ridge Dairy's ice cream stand - a summer tradition for locals - has seen some heifers grazing in the...