When a disease organism hitches a ride on an object, feed particle, another animal, bodily fluid, or the air to find and infect a new host, dairy farmers pay the price for that journey

In the most recent USDA Milk Production report, U.S. milk output was down 1% for the month of June compared to the year before

There’s a dearth of dairy replacements in the countryside

Soil fertility has come a long way over the years

We have learned a lot about how cows react to highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) since it was first identified on U.S. dairy farms in late March

Seventy percent of all milk sold in the United States in 2023 was marketed through Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs)

Dairy is the largest category in retail grocery with $76 billion in sales, according to Circana sales data

On dairy farms, heifers can be described as the middle ground of the operation. Heifers are not yet producing milk but are eating a substantial amount of feed

Cows on many of today’s dairy farms are housed indoors. These controlled climates have many benefits, but one downside is that cows are often walking on concrete day in and day out

USDA’s official recommendations on FMMO modernization were published and Its plan endorses the fundamental principle behind all five proposals submitted by the NMPF and adopted unanimously by its...

With minimal progress made last year, the 2018 bill was extended through the end of September 2024 in the hope that progress could be made this year

Dairy producers can be considered as the “first line of defense” when keeping their herds free of infection