British citizens have long been encouraged to "keep a stiff upper lip" in the face of adversity. But does that include in the face of stupidity, too? The U.S. isn't alone in suffering from clueless members...

"Customers simply expect that we take good care of our cows," said Jennifer Walker, director of dairy stewardship at Dean Foods, during her presentation at the UW-Extension Dairy Well-Being Conference...

Even though Livestock Gross Margin-Dairy Insurance (LGM-Dairy) only first came on the scene in 2008, it quickly became an effective tool to minimize milk price risk for a small group of the nation's dairy...

This past year, the Northeast Federal Milk Marketing Order Administrator once again sent two calibration trucks out in the field to check whether or not on-farm bulk tanks were accurately measuring milk...

Fearmongers no doubt hate this: in the 20 years since rBST was commercially approved in the U.S., scientific evidence of its safety to humans has become even more overwhelming. This was the blunt take-home...

Some nerves were calmed in New York's dairy industry when OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) announced it would only be visiting larger dairies when it begins farm inspections in July....

The non-GMO movement is knocking on Starbucks' doors. A staple on street corners and in airports, the high-value coffee chain is being pressured to serve only organic milk and cut ties with companies supplying...

Blessed with the large number of dairy processing plants, dairy producers throughout the Upper Midwest Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) also enjoy the lowest hauling costs in the country. In its annual...

By 2023, U.S. milk output could reach a record 246 billion pounds, projected USDA economists. That would be a 22 percent expansion of milk supply when compared to the 201.2 billion pounds of milk produced...

Bulldozers are busy again in California's Chino Valley. It's the resumption of the sad but inevitable end to what for decades was the center of the dairy world. The remnants of what used to be a sea of...

Stray voltage is still lurking around the countryside, said Doug Reinemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison milking equipment specialist, when he spoke at the Midwest Rural Energy Conference last week....

As many milk buyers push producers toward a 400,000 somatic cell count (SCC), the national average for DHI herds is already well below that level. This past year, the DHI test herd SCC dropped under 200,000...