“The 2019 harvest season was hard on equipment and it was hard on people,” said Kevin Jarek, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension agent

Geographical indicators (GIs) have been a hot topic in the last several years as countries make trade agreements across the globe

What’s in a name? That’s the battle U.S. and European cheesemakers have been fighting for the last three decades

Negative PPDs, or Producer Price Differentials, have been a story this summer and likely will continue well into the fall

When preparing for planting after corn silage harvest, farmers need to consider forage inventory, cereal grain management, economics, and trying new forages

U.S. cheese consumption posted another new record. In 2019, every American, on average, consumed 38.3 pounds of cheese

Ensuring the safety of farm workers takes multiple forms, and it’s helpful to remember the unique circumstances that may affect women on the farm

Matt Bomgardner of Blue Mountain View Farm in Annville, Pa., returned home to the family farm full time in 2005

With the effects of COVID-19 dominating the news in the dairy industry, there has been little time to analyze how the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program passed in the 2018 farm bill has supported dairy...

The best times for many agricultural sectors occur during periods of strong demand. The ethanol industry boomed when ethanol use grew during a period of record crude oil prices

When dairy farmers contribute 15 cents per hundredweight of milk shipped to the dairy checkoff, they want to know that money is making a difference

As farmers head from September to October, there are still decisions they can make on perennial forages

When COVID-19 first disrupted dairy supply chains, we all saw the grocery store signs

It was mid-January when a dairy manager and I scouted for inefficiencies within the herd. One tool I like is plotting milk production by days in milk to have an idea of the existence of cows with very...

“People notoriously don’t listen to each other,” said Lisa Holden, associate professor of dairy science with Penn State Extension, during the webinar “Dairy Workforce Focus: Communication...

Similar to when a natural disaster hits, the onslaught of COVID-19 onto dairy sales this spring required immediate efforts to stem the bleeding

Dairy products have an important and well-recognized role in retail locations. That’s been true for many years, and it’s not a market that the industry hopes to cede in any way

After logging 3,400 miles of windshield time through the heart of America’s cropland from September 14 to 18, I came away with this finding — this could be a banner crop year

At calving, cows find themselves in a negative calcium balance. That’s because they are literally drawing from their own calcium stores to put the mineral into milk

The Wisconsin Farm Related Fatalities report showed 41 farm fatalities in 2017 and 34 in 2018