People enjoy traditions, but today’s consumers also want and need more from their food products

Transition cows go through many physical changes in the three weeks before calving and the three weeks after

While dairy farmers may be considering sustainability-focused solutions such as cover cropping, conservation tillage, and best management practices for manure application and manure-based products, a key...

In the U.S., 97% of households buy cheese, 93% purchase butter, 92% buy milk, and 82% purchase yogurt

In our industry, we often use the terms “diet” and “ration” interchangeably

The first official confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle in the state of California came in the second half of August

Achieving success in your breeding program isn’t something that just happens overnight

Fall always welcomes more cases of lameness in dairy herds. Anecdotally, it can be associated with long days of standing on concrete in the summer and additional wet hoof scenarios caused by sprinklers...

It’s just as important to not miss the forest for the trees as it is to not view milk production as the sole baseline for cow productivity

It's great to be in Phoenix today, back with you talking about an industry that is probably the hardest industry in the world, but it's one that we're all passionate about and we all love

With our increasingly challenging climate and precipitation patterns, tile drainage has become more important than ever for farms to minimize the annual variation in yield and quality of field crops and...

Dry cow protocols have largely been standardized throughout the last few decades

The Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is a “safety net” program supported by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the farm bill

More than $7 billion worth of new dairy processing facilities will be opening their doors in the coming years

The dairy checkoff was already in place when I began my career as a next-generation Wisconsin dairy farmer

Dairy farms generate a lot of milk, of course, as well a great deal of manure and crops. Another thing dairy farms produce a lot of is data

Implementing a footbath on your farm provides the opportunity to help the farm’s bottom line

The U.S. is projected to sell over 1 billion pounds of cheese to international customers this year

There are distinctive legal obligations associated with employees and independent contractors. For this reason, it is vital that farm workers are not misclassified as one or the other

The conclusion of harvest is often marked by manure application to farm fields