Dairy is the rock on which New Zealand's entire ag sector, and for that matter the entire country's industrial base, is built. And that foundation keeps getting additional mortar as dairy accounted for...

Reader Response: Focus on education, not buildings In response to Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Students are bankrolling public colleges." As a graduate of UW-Madison, I am such a firm believer in higher...

Reader Response: I'm swimming in student debt I would really like to see a comments section to the article on student loan debt. This is a huge problem! (See June 2, 2014, Hoard's Dairyman Intel article...

While the reference to "plastic or paper" would be a common question asked in the checkout lane at the grocery store, in this case it's the answer to which container consumers most frequently purchase...

Construction on the New Holland Pavilions at the Alliant Energy Center is slated for completion by mid-September, approximately 100 days from today. What began as a mere idea three years ago has swiftly...

Dairy-wise, nothing even remotely as big as the just-opened Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) processing plant has ever happened in Fallon, Nev., before. And for the 19 milk producers in the area, it means...

Back in 2008, the boisterous group PETA sponsored an anti-milk billboard campaign in New Jersey, featuring the message "Got Autism?" The ad showed a bowl of milk with a sad face made of cereal, accompanied...

by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor There is a remarkable rebound beginning to take shape. Dairy fats are making a comeback, as butter production reached its highest point since 1941 last year. That was due...

America wasted 31 percent of its available food supply in 2010. That's right . . .of the 430 billion pounds of food produced by American farms that eventually reached the supply chain, 133 billion pounds...

Less food, less jobs and $1.7 billion in agricultural losses are preliminary projections of the damage that will be done by the epic ongoing drought in the nation's largest agricultural state, according...

Lameness is a costly disease that impacts cow productivity in terms of milk production, reproduction and culling value. According to Gerard Cramer, D.V.M., associate professor from the University of Minnesota,...

When water stops flowing, disaster ensues. Seven states, all with major agricultural sectors, are running out of water. Three of these, California, Texas and New Mexico, are top 10 milk production states....