"We face a period of darkness before the dawn," Rabobank's global dairy strategist Tim Hunt told attendees at the 2015 Dairy Forum. "The U.S. is still one of the best dairy bases in the world. However,...

You're hot, sweaty and tired. You gave your workout your all, and now your body is in need of rehydration. So, what do you reach for to recover from your time logged at the gym? Recent work from Griffith...

It appears some current NBA players should have listened to their mothers when they were children and drank their milk. While injuries are almost to be expected in the life of a professional athlete,...

In a fast-paced world filled with personal electronic devices, garnering the attention of today's shoppers will require even more nimble strategies than ever before. Dairy will have to evolve and deal...

The downside to the growing trend of emotion-driven ballot initiatives that dictate what farmers can or can't do, the kind that voters are warned might have bad financial consequences but are inevitably...

Given the long-term price projections for grain and oilseed prices, there definitely could be more acres of cropland dedicated to hay and alfalfa in future years, projected Joe Outlaw with Texas A&M University....

Transferring the farm from one generation to the next is no small feat, and every family faces its own challenges. One farm that recently created a successful partnership between two generations is the...

by Amanda Smith, Associate Editor "Last year was a great year for dairymen," noted Mark Stephenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the Midwest Forage Association's annual meeting. "Producers saw all-time...

To meet consumer demands, organic animal and crop production has grown a great deal in the past decade. Crop acres have more than doubled to the current 5.4-plus million acres split between crops and pasture....

With another new year underway, California continues to be the largest dairy state by a wide margin, accounting for over 20 percent of all milk made in the U.S. Its dairy industry continues to have much...

The dairy industry's biggest producer-focused informational event of the year is just six weeks away, in the form of the 12th Western Dairy Management Conference (WDMC) on March 3, 4 and 5 in Reno, Nev

The nation's major dairy states led the pack for both corn silage and alfalfa forage harvest. Producers in Wisconsin put up 15.7 million tons of corn silage, while California stored 10.9 million tons of...