The West may be alfalfa country, but proximity doesn’t mean lower prices for its hay-buying dairies

While the Hoard’s Dairyman Bull List will be available in the December issue, we are making it available to readers here as well

Annual U.S. dairy cow inventory has been in continual expansion mode every year since 2010 . . . except for the drought year of 2013

Those who are anti-animal agriculture would like us to believe a planet without livestock production would be a better place in terms of greenhouse gas emissions

When it comes to consumer concern over animal welfare, it appears that people fall into three areas of thought

What are the most important metrics that the nation’s top herds use to monitor reproduction?

“For us, the Pocket Cow Card on the phone and tablet is a great reference tool when out among the herd,” said Jake Weisenbeck when discussing how his farm tracks heats, breeding records, and...

2017 Census of Agriculture mailings are arriving this month.

Veterinarian Cesar Narciso pointed to some advantages of IVF (in vitro fertilization), including accelerated genetic gain by using genomically superior donors, strategic reproduction management (like crossbreeding...

USDA just released long-term Agricultural Projections to 2027 for the U.S. dairy industry

Perhaps the best that can be said about the milk price outlook for 2018, as seen in the graph above, is it isn’t expected to be as bad as in 2015 or 2016

Previously, a financial analysis system called “DuPont” was introduced that assesses profitability through three primary levers