Nearly every dairy herd is affected by lameness at some point, and for many, it is a persistent problem. Hoof problems don’t have to be accepted as a fact of dairy cow life, though

A nightmare animal health scenario has hit New Zealand’s dairy industry and government officials are taking painful steps to deal with it

Larger U.S. milk supplies require growing consumer demand — both in America and abroad

Despair, depression, or even a sense of no other way out of a problem can cause people to do the unthinkable — take their own life

Each year, the Hoard’s Dairyman and Hay & Forage Grower editorial staffs dedicate three or four days to a team wide photo trip

The dairy industry does not need more access to foreign workers, as detailed in the May 21, 2018, Hoard’s Dairyman Intel “We have a window for immigration reform.”

One out of 7 — on one day of each seven-day week, every U.S. dairy cow produces milk for the international market

Does any sector of agriculture depend more upon good records than dairy farming?

Even in the northern U.S. climates, we are now well into forage harvesting season

When it comes to calf housing, we often think about what’s around the animal (including pen walls and air movement), but how much consideration is given to what lies beneath the calf as bedding?

Thoughts involving business change tend to follow times of extreme profitability, high or low

Tulare County, Calif., is the third-largest agricultural county in the U.S. and the biggest dairy county by far. Total gross value of its farm production in 2016 was $6.3 billion