While USDA is still hammering out the rules for the newly minted Margin Protection Program (MPP-Dairy) - and all other components of the farm bill for that matter - economists are creating tools that will...

American agriculture is so enormous and diverse that it's impossible to get your arms very far around it . . . even for farmers. That's why the Census of Agriculture is done just every five years and why...

Dairy farmers in the nation's top milk producing state saw minor relief in their production costs last year. According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, it cost California dairy producers...

Milk: the NCAA's newest teammate by Amanda Smith, Associate Editor Whether it's a bowl game, March Madness or the Frozen Four, our nation is captivated by college athletics. With new NCAA guidelines in...

We can learn a great deal from studying weather patterns. That was the main take away from a recent presentation by Elwynn Taylor, a professor of ag meteorology who has been studying his trade since 1982,...

As the late Paul Harvey would say, "Here's the rest of the story . . . Connecticut dairy producer Chris Hannan provided the now famous Vanessa cow for ESPN's "Mike & Mike" show the day after the NCAA Men's...

Brazil's second confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was announced last week by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The animal, a 12-year-old beef cow that was born and...

An island nation half the size of Wisconsin with nearly as many cows, Ireland's milk production, along with that of the European Union, has been on lockdown for the past 30 years. Hosted by Enterprise-Ireland,...

China has further tightened its borders to infant formula made in other countries. New restrictions now require foreign makers of milk powder to register their product and their manufacturing and storage...

"We are at the peak of our milk price cycle," said the University of Wisconsin's Mark Stephenson when discussing current milk prices. "We will likely experience a significant downturn in prices by December...

Reading the Hoard's Dairyman Intel item, "Reader Response: About time farming hits the silver screen," made me think of my own experiences. For all of my 80 years, I have always lived in the very heart...

Reader Response: Corn waste biofuel study unfair It appears you were pretty narrow in your reporting of corn waste biofuel's impact on the environment. The research you shared isn't all that credible,...