For the first time in many months, I’ve spent the last two weeks at home with my family. Normally, I am back at school by now, and aside from my normally abbreviated winter break, I don’t normally...

We started chopping corn silage this week, which provides a great opportunity for our farm kids to help and learn.Is it just me, or are all of the mothers out there feeling a tad overwhelmed

Today on Facebook, one of the nicest people I know shared a very political post. I cringed as I read it, and then I unwisely skimmed through the comments

I think we can all agree 2020 has been a little rocky. COVID-19 has transformed what we think of as regular, day-to-day routines into unpredictable days, weeks, and even months

Each spring, Lakeshore Technical College holds a graduation banquet in northeast Wisconsin for its dairy students

Back-to-school time is always a season of adjustment for parents and students, and that’s especially true on dairies — many are losing their best help!

Dellavale Farms is a century farm located in Pattersonville, N.Y. It is run by Terri Phillips and her husband, Tom Nelson, who are the fourth generation on the Phillips’ farm

Hello summer! It’s nice to know you’re still around . . . now please leave!

Corn silage is on the top of the mind for many dairy farmers right now. As such, three farmers shared what they’ve learned as they work to produce the best corn silage they can

I first traveled to the Hoard’s Dairyman office with the National 4-H Dairy Conference in 2016

This summer, we have struggled to find farm help. Fortunately, we haven’t been in this position much before now

Stereotypes and preconceived notions are hard, aren’t they? Society, for whatever reason, wants to classify us. Separate us into groups that make sense

It was a typical afternoon for my childhood: I’d just gotten home from a volleyball practice, and I needed to feed the heifers

American consumers and American dairy farmers love cheese, but we likely don’t often remember the by-product that comes from making that cheese

Three years and a lifetime ago, I was preparing to start my college journey. I was scared, though I didn’t admit it to my parents, family members, or even my friends

It’s that time of the year again: silage season. We just got through cutting all of the corn silage, and now we are getting equipment ready to harvest sorghum

Have you heard? California is attempting to “go green” without actually going green

We recently hosted dairy farmers from New York on our farm in Oregon. I had never met these farmers before, but we had been connected through the Guernsey breed

My family went on their first vacation to visit a friend in California last spring. It was the first time in 18 years that my parents had left the farm for more than a long weekend outside of driving distance

Not too long ago, I was inside sipping some ice tea and reading a book, when I paused, looked outside my kitchen window, and smiled