---- Ein chinesischer Arbeiter Milch einer Kuh an eine Molkerei von Yili Group in Huji Dorf, Haian Grafschaft, Nantong City, East China Jiangsu Provinz, vom 8. Juli 2
--FILE--A Chinese worker milks a cow at a dairy farm of Yili Group in Huji village, Haian county, Nantong city, east Chinas Jiangsu province, 8 July 2010. In a year when most American farmers can expect lower earnings than in 2013, U.S. milk producers are having a windfall. Prices have never been higher, feed costs are down, and output is headed for an all-time high as exports surge to buyers from Mexico to China. While the average farm will see a 21 percent drop in net-cash income, led by declines for corn, wheat and soybeans, dairy farmers will earn 28 percent more at $334, 100, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts. Dairy farmers are making the best money they have made in many, many years, said Peter Gutierrez, vice president of global ingredient sales for Agri-Mark Inc., a 1, 200-member dairy cooperative in Methuen, Massachusetts, that makes Cabot Creamery cheese and sells about 120 million pounds annually.
