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Nov. 22 2023
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you can enjoy some sort of Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. If you were the one shopping for ingredients to prepare food for the holiday, you likely kept a close eye on prices
Nov. 22 2023
This has been adapted from Randy Mooney’s speech at the National Milk Producers Federation annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., on November 14, 2023
Nov. 22 2023
Looking for pinkeye, treating pinkeye, and worrying about pinkeye can take up a lot of time for a dairy farmer. J
Nov. 22 2023
Fiber degradability, also known as neutral detergent fiber digestibility or NDFD, is a metric frequently used to assess forage quality
Nov. 22 2023
On December 5, and for the first time, the evaluation will include a haplotype call for early onset muscle weakness syndrome
Nov. 16 2023
Fall can be an especially hectic time for farmers, with crops to harvest and manure to move, plus all the regular day-to-day work. This can mean long days, short nights, and a lack of much-needed sleep
Nov. 16 2023
With milk production staying within a narrow range of little change, demand for dairy products is the main driver for price changes
Nov. 15 2023
Federal dietary guidelines are not always factored in when individual people make diet choices for themselves or their family
Nov. 15 2023
We don’t have a new farm bill yet, but steps taken this week ensure programs important to dairy producers will continue for the time being
Nov. 13 2023
What is the dairy community’s role in the future of the world’s food system? That’s a question government leaders, animal rights activists, a growing world population, food processors,...
Nov. 13 2023
In the show The Big Bang Theory, one of the main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper, has a very particular fondness for one location on the show’s main set, the characters’ living room
Nov. 13 2023
It would be useful if we could look into a crystal ball and see what the dairy industry was going to be like in 2024
Nov. 13 2023
For seven consecutive quarters ending in the fourth quarter of last year, the export value of U.S. dairy products beat year-ago levels by 20% or more
Nov. 9 2023
This summer was Earth’s hottest on record. For dairy cattle around the world and the farmers that take care of them, that heat made producing high-quality milk more challenging
Nov. 9 2023
You can’t spend much time in the dairy social media world lately without knowing that butterfat prices are really high
Nov. 9 2023
Digital dermatitis is an infectious foot disease that is very hard to remove once a dairy herd is infected. It is possible, though, to keep this problem at bay
Nov. 9 2023
U.S. dairy consumption has been steadily rising for years, reaching more than 11.5 million metric tons (milk solids equivalent) in 2022
Nov. 6 2023
I was curious to learn more about dairy cooperatives and get a better understanding of NMPF’s work on their behalf
Nov. 6 2023
Providing a third-party yield and quality evaluation of dozens of hybrids each year is a large undertaking, and to get the most value from this effort, each year we ask ourselves what other information...
Nov. 6 2023
Even though their farms lie on four different continents, the four dairy farmers who shared the stage to talk about their businesses during the World Dairy Summit
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