Likened to a sieve, the digestive tract of a newborn calf is a catch-22 for everything in its environment. Immunoglobulins, nutrients, and bacteria alike have free rein in the digestive tract

If you look at what is important to young consumers . . . millennials and Generation Z . . . they want to know where their food comes from. “For a longtime, where our food comes from has been

Talk about winning by default. While it may feel a long way from it, disappointing outlooks for other major commodities make dairying look like agriculture’s best financial sector in 2017

It was easy to conclude the survey results well before the November 2 press release even landed in our electronic in-basket via email

“We do not use sexed semen on cows. However, our heifers get two services to sexed semen,” said Kurt Magnan. “If they do not settle from two services of sexed semen, they get bred to...

Feeding management in robotic dairies is all about meeting the goals of the dairy. Although this is true on all dairies, the University of Minnesota’s Jim Salfer described it as especially noteworthy

That was a question I posed to Taco Bell’s Food and Beverage Innovation Team on a visit to its Irvine, Calif., corporate headquarters in mid September. “When we traditionally looked at the...

As the dairy industry is finishing its second year of low milk prices and the third sign-up for the new Margin Protection Program (MPP-Dairy) is underway

“As you look forward on your farm and business, always keep the consumer in mind,” Mike McCloskey explained to attendees at the Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council’s annual gathering in...

Over the past generation, one cheese, above all others, carried the dairy industry. What was the variety? Mozzarella. Since 1975, U.S. consumption of this variety has grown from 2.11 to 11.27 pounds

Though U.S. milk prices have moved off the lows of this summer, it is unclear whether those prices will continue that upward track in 2017

“DMI opened our eyes to dairy.” That was one of the opening statements by Heather Mottershaw during our on-site visit to Taco Bell’s headquarters in Irvine, Calif., located in the greater