Reader Response: To slow herd growth For around five years in the eastern Wisconsin Dairy Belt that features over 100 cows per square mile, it has been increasingly common to breed the bottom end of the...

Which country tops the beef export charts? Since the turn of the century, India's beef exports have expanded rapidly. With that growth, the South Asian country surpassed Brazil to become the world's largest...

Consider everything to lower cell count. "Whenever you lose interest in being better at something, chances are you have already stopped being good at it," challenged milk quality specialist Andrew Johnson,...

In a bad year, Jerseys lost less. There's really no way to sugarcoat what kind of year 2015 was for dairy owners: it was bad. After setting an all-time high in 2014, average Class III prices plunged by...

Two Dairylands forge a stronger alliance. It's a rare event that two governors get together to discuss agriculture much less dairy issues. However, that is just what happened mid-June 2016 when Wisconsin...

It's a Mexican dairy farm! Shown in the photo from left to right are Gerardo Romo, Fernando Romo, Secretary Ben Brancel, Manuel Romo, Alberto Romo, and Ernesto Romo. The dairy farm is located in the Mexican...

Looks like a U.S. dairy farm, but it's not. If pictures are truly worth a thousand words, this 78-second video should really get you thinking as to the location of the dairy. While it may look like a...

Non-Jerseys* Jerseys Income (per hundredweight) Milk $16.71 $19.90 Co-op inventory loss allocation $0 $0 Milk futures $0.17 $0.19 Calves & heifers $0.73 $0.41 Patronage dividend $0.10 $0.10 Other $0.11...

Reader Response: Mature cows are profitable I found this short article, "Older cows digest feed better," in the July 5, 2016, Intel, to be very revealing. Many of us involved in dairy cattle genetics have...

Reader Response: Comments on "Brexit" News publications such as Hoard's Dairyman can only print what they know to be true at press deadline. By now we all know that the reaction to "Brexit" was short-term...

What is the national cull rate? Cull rates are one of the bellwethers of herd health. However, herd health and dairy cow removal aren't the only factor that drives cull rates . . . the inventory of herd...

Salmonella is one of the most common causes of foodborne illness in the United States, responsible for an estimated 1 million cases of sickness every year. In people with weakened immune systems, young...