I sympathize with the reader who does not want government interference in the details of our individual lives

Americans are saying, "Pass the cheese, please" more than ever before. In data just released by USDA's Economic Research Service, cheese consumption nearly pushed past 34 pounds per person

Like babies, calves demand a considerable amount of time, energy and individualized attention

While chopping and packing is old hat for most of us, employee safety is paramount as we head into the harvest season

With the dinner tent snuggled right up to the glass windows of the Hoard's Dairyman Farm's milking parlor, consumers who attended the "Wisconsin Farm to Table" culinary experience were constantly reminded...

U.S. milk producers know all too well the pain their counterparts in Europe are suffering now

I have a comment for the article on raw milk consumption. One of the basic premises of the Great American Experiment (the birth of our nation) was that government should not interfere in the minute details...

Update: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to extend the sign-up deadline for the dairy Margin Protection Program (MPP) until Friday, November 20th. A September 30 deadline looms for those dairy producers...

"Food with integrity." It's a tagline Chipotle began trumpeting well before its "GMO-free" declaration this April. And it's that integrity, or alleged lack thereof, that may have gotten them into hot...

The death of two people in the same city in southeast Italy last month, attributed to extremely rare Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), is raising concern that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)...

Step aside, liquid margarine; butter is here to take your place. Fast-food chain McDonald's has announced that it will begin using real butter on its Egg McMuffin and other breakfast sandwiches served...

In producing 20.5 percent of the nation's milk last year, the Golden State is the undisputed leader in U.S. milk production. Collectively, its 1,485 dairy farms produced 42.3 billion pounds of milk and...

On August 25, 1951, Hoard's Dairyman editor W.D. Knox began what now has become a 60-plus-year tradition of printing quotes by our founder, W.D. Hoard, on our Editorial Comment page. Since then, some 1,300...

The uterus plays an instrumental role in pregnancy; it is, of course, where the fetus lives. When it comes to dairy cattle, there are many reasons why some cows can't get pregnant, from hormonal and cyclicity...

The sphincter muscle and teat canal keratin are the cow's first line of defense against bacteria. If a clean and dry environment is not maintained, teat ends are then exposed to and overloaded with potential...

"There continues to be considerable public debate on the possible benefits regarding the growing popularity of the consumption of raw milk," wrote John Lucey in the Journal Nutrition and Food Science....

Hilmar Cheese's first employee retires by Dennis Halladay, Western Editor Today is the last day at work for John Jeter, the candid and always passionate chief executive officer and president of Hilmar...

Regarding "Trees and green space ‘improve' our health," I agree completely that trees and green space enrich our souls. Although this was beyond the scope of the research you reported, it occurs...

In a nutshell, economics has been the primary driver that caused almonds to speed past alfalfa for total acreage for the first time in modern California history. The higher returns per acre for the nut...

While some smaller dairy farms do use them, anaerobic digesters typically have the reputation of being a manure handling method strictly for larger operations. And of the 202 anaerobic digesters operating...