Below are the featured articles from recent issues of Hoard's Dairyman.


March 20 2025
Ingredients: 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/3 cup baking cocoa 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 table
March 13 2025
With a constant focus on managing feed costs, we spend most of the time thinking about ingredients that would qualify as expensive
March 13 2025
Many factors play a role in successful reproduction. In this column, we’ll focus on the relationship between genomics, milk yield, characteristics and detection of estrus, and fertility
March 13 2025
U.S. dairy is strong and growing, and it is the envy of the world,” exclaimed Michael Dykes to the large audience at the International Dairy Foods Association’s (IDFA) 2025 Dairy Forum carrying...
March 13 2025
Many of us often wonder if training farm workers is worth the time and effort it takes to perform
March 13 2025
Despite headwinds from highly pathogenic avian influenza, weather challenges in many parts of the country, and a slight contraction in U.S. dairy herds, 2024 maintained many of the thresholds that were...
Feb. 17 2025
February is the month that we are supposed to focus on love
Feb. 17 2025
We have long known that there is a genetic antagonism between milk yield and the percentages of fat and protein
Feb. 17 2025
It was bound to happen, and one night it did. That 2-foot-high pile of papers and notes collected at continuing education events over the last few years fell over
Feb. 17 2025
Proper navel care is one of the first and most important steps in raising healthy calves
Jan. 17 2025
During a recent farm visit, I walked into a barn and was surprised to see a zebra
Jan. 17 2025
Milking fresh heifers for the first time can be a stressful and hazardous experience for both milking technicians and cattle alike
Jan. 17 2025
There were seven of us sitting around the table. Sam, Brad, and Ben were the father and two sons who owned the farm
Jan. 8 2025
Restraint is the first step in the examination and treatment of cattle
Jan. 8 2025
It is now standard operating procedure for dairy producers to think about shrink in silages
Jan. 8 2025
While nearly everyone in the dairy industry forecasted that U.S. milk production would keep growing, milk production began stalling in 2022 and has held relatively flat ever since
Dec. 31 2024
I recently read a research paper appropriate for the frosty winter weather many readers will be facing in the coming months about how feed and water temperature may affect rumen temperature and the significance...
Dec. 9 2024
Communication follows nourishment and shelter as a basic human need
Dec. 9 2024
Carbon has become a ubiquitous term in sustainability discussions, ranging from talk of carbon markets and carbon credits to carbon offsets and carbon insets
Nov. 20 2024
A number of years ago, there was a couple that moved from the city of Philadelphia to our farm-centric neighborhood