When it comes to feed costs, we are in uncharted waters and seem to be going “where no man has gone before.”

“GREAT NEWS!!!”That was the lead statement from Peggy Holoubek Hainy on Monday, March 14, who just days earlier made a public plea on Facebook

We are at the end of the winter, and soon it will be time to start harvesting winter grass forages for silage. Recently, I have been asked whether grass and legume mixtures ensile well

Planting a grain crop like corn or soybeans into a growing cover crop is a practice that is gaining popularity. For dairy and crop farmer Tony Peirick, “planting green” is a concept

“We told dairy farmers for five to seven years that fat was valuable,” said Phil Plourd, president of Blimling and Associates

A record 8.7 million units of beef semen was sold to U.S. dairy farmers and cattle ranchers last year. That was up 21% over the previous year’s 7.2 million units

It’s a piece of the milk price cycle we have become accustomed to. When milk prices go up, milk production follows

January 2022 was the third straight month that U.S. milk production declined — milk pounds down 1.6% compared to last year represented the largest year-over-year loss in nearly 18 years

The way Josh Hiemstra manages the fields surrounding his family’s 170-cow dairy near Brandon, Wis., has changed considerably since he started farming with his parents

While cow numbers in the nation’s dairy herd held steady, dairy farm numbers did not follow the same course. In losing 5.7% of the farms holding a permit to sell milk, dairy farm numbers fell

With as much data as is collected on dairy farms today, the old saying “You can’t manage what you don’t measure” may be getting less traction, but it remains just as true

Most of the updates made in the eighth revised edition of the Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle were minor; according to Bill Weiss from The Ohio State University

A flat tire can quickly ruin your day. On the other hand, truck or tractor tires that are well-inflated and strong can carry you through the ruts, rain, snow, and other obstacles

Preliminary totals have come in, and those totals don’t look favorable for fluid milk. Sales slumped 4.1% by sliding from 46.2 billion to 44.3 billion pounds when comparing 2020 to 2021, according...

Most every dairy has a list of projects they’d like to complete “someday,” if there were only enough time and money. What would you add to your dairy if you were not limited by a budget?

Food price inflation has been a well-documented phenomenon in recent months, but retail dairy products have yet to face the same upward price pressure that has existed for many other commodities

Administering a vaccine to an animal is one thing, but the animal developing immunity is another. Multiple factors come into play to affect a vaccine and its action in the animal’s body that determine...

While the 21-year average indicates a 3.735% butterfat level and a 3.106% protein average in the Central Federal Milk Marketing Order, that’s just part of the story

Good health begins in the gut—but did you know an individual’s gut microbiome is established during the first two years of life?

Risk management is a broad term that can have many, often complicated, definitions when considering a dairy’s choices on its financial security