The rosy potential for dairy industry growth that first attracted California-based Hilmar Cheese Co. to Texas nearly a decade ago is already becoming reality. As and it does, the company's state-of-the-art...

Most by-product feed markets tend to track corn and soybean meal prices. Producers, therefore, saw little urgency to secure supplies as the price of corn fell during the summer months. But, while corn...

Feed efficiency is certainly a buzzword in the dairy industry today. Is it the goal we all should be striving for? From a nutritionist's standpoint, Brian Perkins from Diamond V Technical Services explained...

This year could finally provide an opportunity to rebuild cash reserves following a span of high feed prices and 2009's disastrous free fall in milk prices. Currently, the 2014 All-Milk Price forecast...

The January 6, 2014, Hoard's Dairyman Intel item "Is the US, EU or India the top milk producer?" taught us that the United States leads all countries in milk produced from dairy cows. There are two follow-ups...

Last week, McDonald's Corporation announced its commitment to begin purchasing "verified sustainable beef" in 2016. Between now and then, the company plans to communicate with stakeholders from the farmer...

Class III milk prices in 2013 were the third highest in history, adding to a string of recent producer income records that is likely to continue in 2014. Last week's announcement of the $18.95 per hundredweight...

The popular press pounced on Washington State University's study after grand assumptions were drawn about the CLA superiority of organic milk. As this sentiment sprung up across major news organizations,...

Global milk production among the five leading dairy export regions is projected to grow 1.5 percent throughout 2014, reported Foreign Agricultural Service officials with USDA. Of the top five dairy exporters,...

Isn't the Foodini concept a way to play with the "pink slime" everyone was so upset about? Hmmmm. That's my conclusion after reading the item "3D food printing? Um, no" in the December 23 issue of Hoard's...

There is one issue with the item "Japan has feed costs you won't believe" in the December 30, 2013, Hoard's Dairyman Intel. The problem with tariff reduction is the maintenance of domestic subsidies of...

Regarding the study from Purdue University (December 30 Hoard's Dairyman Intel item "Polled and dehorning costs break even") on the comparative costs of dehorning against the cost of using semen from polled...