By offering a safe place for students to develop and share thoughts about animal welfare within the dairy industry, the University of Guelph has taken a proactive approach to herd health

A new word, nutrichondriac, has evolved to define the group of individuals who have a “preoccupation with negative details of one’s diet and a propensity to self-diagnose food intolerances...

The veterinarian who started a cooperative, partners with Coca-Cola in a hit milk product, and operates perhaps the biggest agro tourism site in the U.S., sees a dairy future filled with milking robots

Citing market conditions that are in a “state of flux, aggravated by challenging national dairy product markets,” National All-Jersey and its fellow proponents withdrew their proposal for a...

With a growing world population, we hear time and again that we will have to feed more people with fewer farmers and less resources

The number of calf barns with automated feeders is certainly on the rise. More and more farmers are going that route for their calf raising needs

With both the House of Representatives and Senate passing unique versions of the 2018 Farm Bill, future dairy policy direction becomes clearer

One of the most important jobs on the farm is formulating and feeding rations that optimize cows’ genetic potential to produce milk without breaking the bank

It’s no surprise that just about everything that goes into making milk is expensive

The world’s milk production could climb by 35 percent, predicted researchers associated with the IFCN Dairy Research Centre. South Asia, anchored by China and India, could lead the way, expanding...

When it comes to animal welfare, the easiest metrics to measure are health related . . . but welfare goes beyond the body. It can also vary from animal to animal

SilageSnap, a new app available this July for your mobile device, can provide dairy producers and custom operators an accurate method for checking the kernel processor roller settings during harvest

On many farms, it’s well understood that the calf’s first meal is of vital importance

I’m sometimes asked by dairy farmers why they no longer see the checkoff’s advertising on television like they used to

To say that most consumers know little about dairy farming might be generous — and rounding their average knowledge level down to zero might not be totally unfair

Crave Brothers Farm in Waterloo, Wis., has grown and changed over the years

Constant improvement — better genetics, more pregnancies, less disease . . . the list is endless

Employee turnover rates over the last 12 months ranged from 11 percent to 44 percent for the majority of the 200 dairy farms included in the UW Cooperative Extension and UW Center for Dairy Profitability...

Trade has been dominating the headlines

It’s official — California’s dairy producers voted to approve a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) for the entire state of California