My education about the dairy industry started from scratch, because as a non-ag person I literally knew nothing about cows

“The dairy industry has led the agri-genomic revolution with the implementation of genome-enabled genetic predictions,” wrote the 23 authors in a recent paper published in Frontiers in Genetics

The concept is simple. If you are one of those farms that harvested less than ideal quality forages this spring because of muddy fields or any number of other factors, you might still be able to feed it...

Overall, robotic milking systems tend to boost milk production

Going rates for agricultural cropland dropped in both Wisconsin and Michigan over the past year

A new bill was introduced in Congress earlier this month with the intention of helping young people who want to farm pay off student loans

What a fantastic story and tribute you wrote about my very first 4-H leader

There are bad apples in every industry’s barrel, including dairying. In an age of instantly sharing images, backlash to a single bad apple can spoil an industry’s reputation overnight

When considering forage fermentation as a measure of forage crop quality, we need to compare it against expected values

“People, you have to look at the numbers if you’re going to survive.” Those were the introductory words of Vita Plus’s Gary Sipiorski at the recent Four-State Dairy Nutrition and...

For much of the Midwest and Northeast, it started raining last fall. Wet harvests gave way to saturated soils during the winter and flooding this spring

With USDA initiating sign-ups for its cornerstone dairy safety net program on June 17, the federal agency simultaneously updated a major component in the feed cost margin calculator — hay prices