In conversations revolving around welfare, a common topic is pasture allowance. Particularly among consumers, there is great interest to the merits of permanent pasture housing versus permanent enclosure...

Sign-up for the new Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is well underway, and sign-ups have been steady since enrollment began on June 17

“With the way the economics have been in the industry the last couple years, you better have a strong relationship with your lender,” advised Scott Benner

Dairy farming invokes a nostalgic image in America among many folks in my generation: Lots of farms were diversified and had a handful of dairy cows to supply the family’s milk and feed the hogs,...

Even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Chemicals Agency have declared that glyphosate

Despite last year’s dismal dairy economics, a few farms in Michigan managed to eke out positive cash flows

Reproductive herd health visits by veterinarians have changed tremendously with the use of ultrasound technology

If lower milk prices are the new normal, then it’s time to find ways to evaluate each dollar spent on feed

Quality calf care is a must, but in reality, a calf’s needs are fairly simple

My education about the dairy industry started from scratch, because as a non-ag person I literally knew nothing about cows

“The dairy industry has led the agri-genomic revolution with the implementation of genome-enabled genetic predictions,” wrote the 23 authors in a recent paper published in Frontiers in Genetics

The concept is simple. If you are one of those farms that harvested less than ideal quality forages this spring because of muddy fields or any number of other factors, you might still be able to feed it...

Overall, robotic milking systems tend to boost milk production

Going rates for agricultural cropland dropped in both Wisconsin and Michigan over the past year

A new bill was introduced in Congress earlier this month with the intention of helping young people who want to farm pay off student loans

What a fantastic story and tribute you wrote about my very first 4-H leader

There are bad apples in every industry’s barrel, including dairying. In an age of instantly sharing images, backlash to a single bad apple can spoil an industry’s reputation overnight

When considering forage fermentation as a measure of forage crop quality, we need to compare it against expected values

“People, you have to look at the numbers if you’re going to survive.” Those were the introductory words of Vita Plus’s Gary Sipiorski at the recent Four-State Dairy Nutrition and...

For much of the Midwest and Northeast, it started raining last fall. Wet harvests gave way to saturated soils during the winter and flooding this spring