11.   Some dairy producers want Congress to expand the regional controls to include most of the Northeast and create a similar system in the South for milk.

12.   The government expects U.S. livestock, poultry and dairy producers to charge more, even as they pay less to grain farmers.

13.   The government expects prices for U.S. livestock, poultry and dairy producers to rise, even as huge corn and soybean crops will likely push down grain prices.

14.   Their insistence on trading with Cuba and a squabble among dairy producers has tied up work on a multibillion dollar package of farm aid.

15.   US beef and dairy producers voluntarily stopped using protein byproducts from ruminants as feed in April.