DAIRY producers in all 11 Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO) ratified recent changes to the milk pricing system. In general, these changes will go into effect June 1, 2025, but the advanced prices became...

Machine learning has monopolized the dairy tech-talk spotlight for years — in fact, a 2020 article in the Journal of Dairy Science on precision dairy monitoring technologies (PDMT) noted that such...

The first 42 days of a dairy calf’s life have been well researched but are still not yet well understood. Microbial protein from the rumen microflora offers a nearly perfect balance of all 10 essential...

Fulfilling their curiosity with on-farm experiments is a highlight for farmers. Driven by observing their working environment daily, farmers perform tests while seeking solutions and improvements, becoming...

The National FFA Organization has announced an addition to their endorsed Career and Leadership Development events: The Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging Contest

A hoof condition that has been nearly eradicated from the cow population is now showing up in heifers

Each year, herbicide performance is influenced by weather, and spring 2025 has brought concerns related to dry conditions in the Midwest

June Dairy Month is the perfect time to celebrate the contributions of Wisconsin’s dairy farm families and the entire dairy community

At this spring’s California Dairy Sustainability Summit, methane was on everyone’s mind — and it looks like dairy farmers are well on their way to achieving the state’s reduction...

The market sentiment was bearish on U.S. cheese for the first half of 2025, but the reality is playing out stronger than expected

With cattle supply on a downward trend across the United States, beef bull prices have skyrocketed, and ranchers are under more pressure than ever to choose wisely come auction time

Although the seasons run opposite down under, Australian dairy farmers are no strangers to heat stress

While pair-housing calves has many benefits, it also brings some disease risks. Researchers suggest pairing early in life to capture all the upsides of pair housing

During the Hoard’s Dairyman April webinar, speaker Jimena Laporta offered data and analysis of recent and continuing studies on the lingering — and multigenerational — impact of heat...

Soybeans and corn are starting to be seeded into the ground across the U.S. Soil temperatures are still cold in many areas, and this article is not intended to push for a rush to the planter

For decades, the National Conference of Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) has served as a model cooperative program between the U. S. Public Health Service/Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

If you asked me several years ago about lactose, I would have said it makes up 4.8% of milk and is the osmotic regulator of milk volume and left it at that

A University of Illinois study reinforced the important role that additional dietary calcium inclusion during the prepartum period can play in improving postpartum uterine health and fertility in cows...

Every one of us has experienced that “gut feeling” — an instinctual physical reaction that signals something may or may not be right

It is time to put seed corn in the ground for the 2025 crop in many parts of the U.S