A calf faces many challenges at weaning, including the transition to a solid diet and often commingling with other calves. On top of this, a calf is still developing its immune system, which is not fu

This welcome subject line appeared in my email box a week ago, a response to last week’s Intel item about how Class III milk futures prices are looking much better for the last eight months of the...

First Grassland shed 75 dairies in the Upper Midwest last year

A logical conclusion drawn by some dairy producers is that cows that produce large amounts of milk early in lactation don’t breed back as well

There has been a lot of improvement lately in the milk price outlook for the rest of 2018, which is cause for a sigh of relief

We are learning more and more all the time about how the amount of milk we feed a calf can affect future production

Everyone who milks cows for a living should take a serious look at the revamped Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)

In just five years, Class I milk sales have slid from 35.5 percent to 30 percent. That’s according to Federal Milk Marketing Order data that compares 2012 to 2017

“Milking is so routine, frankly, we don’t even think about it. It just happens,” said Phil Durst, Michigan State University Extension

Michigan now has the highest milk production per cow in the country, and the state has doubled its milk production since 2000

The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture passed the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (ANA18) out of committee on April 18, 2018

In order to get on their feet and get back into reproductive form, research has shown that a good fresh period is essential for cows

$1,320. That’s the price quoted for dairy herd replacements by USDA in its April 2018 Agricultural Prices

According to Ohio State’s Bill Weiss, error can sidetrack even the best of rations

Fred and Ethel are the newest and most consistent employees at Jones Farms in Stevinson, Calif. They never miss a milking shift and they follow every protocol with every cow

One nut has surpassed dairy while another nut is nipping at dairy’s heels

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a cattle trailer? Most of us probably haven’t, but Anthony Bontrager, the trucking supervisor for Country View Calves in Shipshewana, Ind.,...

Farmers get only 30 cents from every $1 spent,” read the headline in the March 26, 2018, Hoard’s Dairyman Intel. When consumers spent $1 on dairy products in 2017, dairy farmers received 30...

Not that many decades ago, ballottement or “bumping” a cow’s abdomen to check for a calf was a common method of pregnancy detection

Not quite a year ago, the first dairy company said they would make the transition to selling dairy products that had been produced by cows that were fed feeds free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)