Genetic improvements within the U.S. dairy herd are fueling historic gains in key milk components needed to produce cheese, butter and a variety of other popular dairy foods
Foremost Farms USA, a major Midwest dairy cooperative and dairy manufacturing company, announces today that Greg Schlafer resigned his role as president and chief executive officer, effective April 11,...
Holstein Association USA is thrilled to announce the 2025 Distinguished Junior Member (DJM) Semifinalists and 2025 Young Distinguished Junior Member (YDJM) Finalists
The National Milk Producers Federation celebrated strong bipartisan Senate support for the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act as senators begin considering this critical legislation
Today, the bipartisan New Producer Economic Security Act was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate by Representatives Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Zach Nunn (R-IA-03), Joe Courtney (D-CT-02), Don Davis...
Dr. Geoffrey Dahl is the Harriet B. Weeks Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Director of the USAID Feed the Future Livestock Systems Innovation Lab at the University of Florida
Cow size has been on the rise for decades. Cows today weigh 1.4 times as much as their predecessors in 1980. In fact, cow weight is rising 100 pounds every 10 years
One of the main and costly drivers for culling decisions is lameness. Defined as an abnormality or injury to the hoof, hoof lesions fall into categories such as sole ulcers, digital dermatitis
With rising health consciousness, fitness, and the surge of GLP-1 users, consumers have been inundated with the importance of protein for overall health
Highly pathogenic avian influenza was identified in dairies for the first time almost one year ago. From a human health standpoint, it is a zoonosis — or a disease that can spread to humans
As the calendar turned the page to a new year, USDA reported the number of beef cows dropped by 1% last year, the sixth straight year of decline since the peak in 2019
“No one can be you the way that you can be you,” said Carla Harris during her keynote speech at the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) conference in January
Uncertainty about tariffs, retaliatory tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, and other government policy changes are creating a lot of angst in the dairy markets
Amid a frenetic daily pace in Washington, Congress is slowly moving toward renewing the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a major tax legislation that President Trump signed