31.   Lower milk production nationally and higher costs have caused an increase in ice cream prices for consumers and companies alike.

32.   Milk production is off because of the heat, prices paid to farmers have been erratic and sporadic drought conditions are hurting some operations that grow their own feed.

33.   Milk production occurs in the mammary cells.

34.   Marketing orders originally were instituted to encourage more milk production in the South and West, where there were shortages.

35.   Milk production is down.

36.   Most milk sold in the United States is produced with the help of a genetically modified growth hormone, which is injected into lactating cows to boost milk production.

37.   New England regulators had hoped the new pricing system would stabilize milk production, not increase it.

38.   Oxytocin is the hormone responsible for uterine contractions during labor and for milk production, she said.

39.   PETA officials admit their real aim was to highlight what they perceive as the cruel treatment of cows bred for commercial milk production.

40.   Sales of Posilac bovine somatotropin, a product given to cows to help increase milk production, also improved.