Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you can enjoy some sort of Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. If you were the one shopping for ingredients to prepare food for the holiday, you likely kept a close eye on prices

This has been adapted from Randy Mooney’s speech at the National Milk Producers Federation annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., on November 14, 2023

Looking for pinkeye, treating pinkeye, and worrying about pinkeye can take up a lot of time for a dairy farmer. J

Over the past 30 years, the dairy industry has seen substantial improvement in the reproductive success of our herds

Fiber degradability, also known as neutral detergent fiber digestibility or NDFD, is a metric frequently used to assess forage quality

On December 5, and for the first time, the evaluation will include a haplotype call for early onset muscle weakness syndrome

There is a lack of research — especially in the U.S. — to support how a herd of cows with high health due to quality genetics can help reduce a farm’s environmental footprint

During the November Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, presenter Mike Hutjens asked the audience how much their feed costs per cow will change from 2023 to 2024

Dairy product nutrition education has long emphasized the benefits milk’s essential nutrients provide for the body

We’ve seen a sharp increase in prices for dry whey, whey protein concentrate (WPC), and whey protein isolate (WPI) in the past three months, along with a little strength in permeate and lactose

Fall can be an especially hectic time for farmers, with crops to harvest and manure to move, plus all the regular day-to-day work. This can mean long days, short nights, and a lack of much-needed sleep

With milk production staying within a narrow range of little change, demand for dairy products is the main driver for price changes

Federal dietary guidelines are not always factored in when individual people make diet choices for themselves or their family

We don’t have a new farm bill yet, but steps taken this week ensure programs important to dairy producers will continue for the time being

What is the dairy community’s role in the future of the world’s food system? That’s a question government leaders, animal rights activists, a growing world population, food processors,...

In the show The Big Bang Theory, one of the main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper, has a very particular fondness for one location on the show’s main set, the characters’ living room

It would be useful if we could look into a crystal ball and see what the dairy industry was going to be like in 2024

For seven consecutive quarters ending in the fourth quarter of last year, the export value of U.S. dairy products beat year-ago levels by 20% or more

This summer was Earth’s hottest on record. For dairy cattle around the world and the farmers that take care of them, that heat made producing high-quality milk more challenging

You can’t spend much time in the dairy social media world lately without knowing that butterfat prices are really high