"Five more years! Five more years! Five more years!" That was the chant heard loud and clear last Monday at Pulaski International School in Chicago, Ill., as Commissioner Roger Goodell helped announce...

While much of the Middle East and North Africa is blessed with vast reserves of oil, that same cannot be said for fresh water and productive farmland. As a result, the region relies on food imports to...

One of the nation's smallest dairy states is slated to more than double its annual milk output. Last year, Hawaii produced 28 million pounds of milk, a mere 9 percent of the Aloha state's annual usage,...

Moms everywhere have been touting the importance of breakfast for decades, and research has proven its value time and again. A recent study solidifies the saying that breakfast is the most important meal...

The poor, lowly penny. Ignored. Forgotten. Discarded. But in numbers they have surprising power, even on dairies. At current Class III prices, a penny's worth of milk is about 1.6 tablespoons. That sounds...

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

It's numbers like these that provide our industry two choices: 1) put some form of production control in place; or 2) Compete on world market more. (For more information, read the November 25 Hoard's Dairyman...

Even though worldwide milk output is expected to grow 1.9 percent by year's end, global dairy exports are projected to fall by 0.9 percent, noted the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the latest...

Sunny California has never seen anything like 2013. According to statistics from the National Weather Service, nothing short of a Noah-like deluge this month will keep the Golden State from having its...

Once your bunks are packed and covered, your focus needs to shift from maximizing yields to reducing future losses. While it's difficult to counteract poor management early on, proper feed-out can minimize...

Great effort is placed on preventing and managing common illnesses that strike calves, including respiratory disease and scours. When calculating calf loss, however, many farms forget about calves that...

Selling dairy products to international partners is not the ultimate goal. Developing repeat buyers is truly what the U.S. Dairy Export Council's mission is when working with dairy purchasers around the...

Greek yogurt is a relatively new addition to the U.S. dairy case. And, while it's a boon for sales as consumers add it to their diets, it comes at the expense of other dairy products, in particular, conventional...

Unlike New Zealand's Fonterra Cooperative, which controls over 90 percent of the nation's dairy product trade, the U.S. has a competitive environment with numerous manufacturers that compete openly for...

U.S. dairy farmers are in shrinking company. The nation lost 62.5 percent of its dairy farms between 1992 and 2012. The part of the country hit hardest was the Southeast region, where the dairy industry...

Competition for space in consumers' stomachs isn't getting any easier. According to the latest data from the USDA Economic Research Service, average total consumption of all dairy products in the U.S....

In the December 2011 issue of Hoard's Dairyman, we first reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was going to move forward with enhanced testing of milk for antibiotic residues. While those...

Great article from Nina Bakht Halal. She certainly shares how important it is for the U.S. cooperatives and independent processors to be on the ground in all the export counties of the world. What so many...

The article "Middle East hungry for dairy products" caught my eye because several years back I was involved in a dairy project in Lebanon. They are serious about increasing their milk production, because...

Falling grain prices are expected to shift the agricultural profit spotlight from crops to cattle in 2014, according to Matt Diersen, professor of Ag Economics at South Dakota State University (pictured...