Dairies across the country are watching their margins shrink. There are a few producers across the country, though, who will receive a consolation prize for the recent drop in milk prices in the form of...

Among the top 10 evolving food trends, "More is in store for protein: source and quality of proteins become key" was a theme highlighted by LuAnn Williams, Innova Market Insights' director on innovation

Southeast Asia is already a vital customer with the U.S., as evidenced by its second-place standing among all U.S. customers, purchasing $1.32 billion in dairy products and ingredients last year. To put...

The negotiations related to a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have been ongoing for some time. Most analysts agree that U.S. agriculture would benefit from a trade agreement with the 12 or so Pacific region...

Since last spring, farm milk prices have dropped by approximately 40 percent to their lowest levels since 2007. Feed prices, however, have increased about 50 percent. Scores of farms are choosing to go...

An unavoidable process, aging exposes the human body to a host of disease conditions. When consumed at recommended levels, dairy may have a protective effect against the neurodegenerative conditions common...

Finding good employees is hard. Keeping them is even harder.One of the main messages Tom Wall, president of Dairy Interactive, LLC and Language Links, LLC, shared at the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association's...

The latest Hoard's Dairyman Bull List is a sure sign that breeders and dairy producers across the U.S. have bought into the science of genomics. As you may recall, we can learn 60 to 70 percent of the...

milk in a parallel parlor so, yes, I agree tails are a pain . . . however, they do not have to be docked as suggested in "Reader Response: Docked tails make milking easier."

We all know that a Google search about GMOs and glyphosates will turn up an overwhelming number of negative websites as mentioned in the Hoard's Dairyman Intel, "Could glyphosate cause cancer?" These negative...

Europe has been handcuffed by quotas for more than 30 years. Now that those self-imposed production limits are gone this April, the question remains: How will Europe compete on the global dairy product...

The rumen is akin to an orchestra. It requires a variety of elements, working in concert with one another, to achieve its end goal. When the rumen is working harmoniously, dairy cattle are able to transform...

The 2015 national feed situation is off to a not very encouraging start, thanks to the March 31 Prospective Plantings report from USDA.According to the report, total corn acreage for the year is forecast...

With snowpack levels at just 5 percent of the historical average for April 1 - the lowest amount for that date since record keeping began in 1950 - the severity of drought has reached a new high

"Milk does a body good" could have been a tagline dating back to the 15th century because it helped build strong human populations and societies

We must tell our story. Isn't it fact that dairy recycles so many human waste by-products in what we feed our cattle? For example, vegetable culls or brewers grains

Clearly, neither speaker cited in the March 16, 2015, Intel "Rethinking tail docking" nor the March 9, 2015, Intel "Rethinking animal welfare starts with tails" have ever milked cows in a parallel or carousel-type...

by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor Having been applied to crops and farm fields for over 40 yearsHaving been applied to crops and farm fields for over 40 years in some 160 countries around the globe, glyphosate...

When Mother Nature decides to turn on the summer heat, we have come to expect drops in milk yield and dips in reproductive performance. Another negative consequence of heat stress for today's cows is the...

In a matter of weeks, equipment will hit fields across the Midwest and Northeast. While hybrid decisions are already locked in for the planting season, there's still time to evaluate planting densities,...