The state of young stock sales in the dairy industry is almost uglier than the milk price this year

Even though William Shakespeare’s famous line, “Now is the winter of our discontent” was written in 1592, it sums up well where many U.S. dairy farmers probably find themselves in 2018

This week marks the end of an era, as California’s state milk pricing order will reach its final sunset

It takes approximately 1,400 pounds of corn to finish out a steer. Would we be better off feeding that corn to humans instead?

The Idaho Dairy Worker Training and Safety Program has been almost three years in the making

Just like humans, cows display sidedness behavior. Maybe you have noticed a cow that always lays down on its right side or is a huge fan of the left side of the milking parlor

When someone mentions that a business is “profitable,” people assume they know what that means. However, we shouldn’t casually make this sort of judgment call

“What happens on paper isn’t always what happens in the field, in the barn, or in the parlor,” said Lisa Holden, an associate professor at Penn State University

The dairy industry has had plenty of issues to drag our spirits down lately. Some of those items would include the fourth year of relatively low milk prices, trade wars, and a wet fall hampering fieldwork...

Young calves are some of the most susceptible members of the dairy farm

One of the core promises that swept President Donald Trump into office was that he would renegotiate better deals for the United States with our traditional trading partners

More cheese, please.That’s been the collective response from U.S. consumers who now eat 10 more pounds of cheese when compared to just 20 years ago

After reading the Hoard’s Dairyman Intel “Feed-cost adjusters get a facelift,” I must share this sarcastic comment — I’m glad USDA believes farmers are make so much money

The collective bargaining clout of the nation’s top 50 cooperatives continued to grow in 2017

A new California law mandates restaurants serving kids’ meals must offer either milk or water as their advertised drink options

For generations, farmers have fed calves whole milk. In fact, with the growing popularity of on-farm pasteurizers, some farms have returned to feeding milk for its nutritional benefits after utilizing...

California is just over two weeks away from joining the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) system, so it’s interesting to note that there has been a significant dip of late in the value of Class...

If you milk cows for a living, no one needs to tell you that milk checks have been downright terrible

Whether you are dairy farming in America or New Zealand, milkfat is back in a big way

A dairy farmer can take great care to make sure the milk produced on his or her farm is of the highest quality as it travels from the cow to the bulk tank