Dozens, if not hundreds, of variables make a single precise answer impossible for all farms, but there is one statement that applies to everyone: It was expensive. According to income and cost data for...

In Japan, not only are people enjoying a treat from Starbucks, some cows are, too. Starbucks purchases somewhere around 400 million pounds of coffee globally each year, according to Bloomberg Businessweek

Let's get rules published on dairy insurance by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor Take a look at the calendar. Exactly 158 days have passed since President Obama signed the farm bill on February 7, 2014. Exactly...

A part- or full-time summer job and a child's ability to learn financial lessons just might be the best two gifts any parent could give to a son or daughter. That's according to research by Thomas Stanley...

The price to host a summer picnic will cost you a little more this year than it did last year, thanks to two main culprits: meat and dairy. Smaller beef cattle and hog inventories, coupled with high demand...

A third year of drought with no end in sight, household wells going dry, and suburban water shortages are turning public sentiment against farmers in the country's biggest agricultural state. Hot and dry...

America's amber waves of grain will be tinted green for a spell as the largest soybean crop on record went into the ground this spring. Up 11 percent over the year prior, planted soybean acres for 2014...

For an organization that prides itself on science-based research, the Consumers Union and its widely read Consumer Reports and ShopSmart publications have gotten dairy wrong on a number of occasions over...

Reader Response: Milk isn't a generic label We as an industry should lobby for not allowing those products to be called milk. See June 23, 2014, Hoard's Dairyman Intel article, "Milk alternatives have...

by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor The Holstein Association USA will add a new fertility index and a feed efficiency rating to its Total Performance Index (TPI) formula, reported Jonathan Lamb, chairman...

Even $24 milk prices have failed to cool export demand for U.S. dairy products so far during 2014. China continues to be the biggest driver of that demand and is the reason why the most expensive milk...

It appears that today's consumers aren't letting their taste buds make all of their food decisions. Instead, it was a variety of health factors that made the top 10 list of nutrition trends that could...