Meat, chicken, fish, dairy products, or eggs . . . as it turns out, your body needs nine proteins found in these foods because those amino acids cannot be made by the body

“If we are going endure (low prices) over the course of having tariffs, we need to come out good on the other side,” said Wisconsin dairyman Chris Pollack during a recent listening session...

After a bitter public battle that even saw one side place billboard messages on major roadways in California’s Central Valley, it appears cooler heads will prevail

What does a deadly disease in hogs have to do with dairy markets? The answer is quite simple . . . pigs eat components of whey, a cheese by-product. Fewer pigs means a plummeting demand for whey exported...

Europe’s cheesemakers are not happy with Canada. That’s according to a July 17, 2019, report by Canada’s very own National Post titled: “Cheese quotas in Canada-Europe deal quietly...

Eighteen years after Canada became the first country in the world to make radio frequency identification or RFID tags mandatory for cattle identification, it appears the U.S. will finally follow suit as...

Returns from making milk in the American Southwest have been tough to come by for dairy farmers

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the July 2019 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Chemicals Agency have declared that glyphosate

Despite last year’s dismal dairy economics, a few farms in Michigan managed to eke out positive cash flows

“The dairy industry has led the agri-genomic revolution with the implementation of genome-enabled genetic predictions,” wrote the 23 authors in a recent paper published in Frontiers in Genetics

Going rates for agricultural cropland dropped in both Wisconsin and Michigan over the past year

With USDA initiating sign-ups for its cornerstone dairy safety net program on June 17, the federal agency simultaneously updated a major component in the feed cost margin calculator — hay prices

“Only one girl participated in the event, and she was the high individual in the entire contest. Miss Barbara Riggs, member of the second place Maryland team, had a score of 690 in judging all breeds,...

For back-to-back years, butterfat levels in the collective U.S. bulk tank posted 0.05 percentage growth

It took over a year for markets to recover

Pricing standing hay can be a challenge due to multiple cuttings and subsequent harvests throughout the year, along with a lack of a formal commodity market

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the June 2019 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

The name describes the product very succinctly — tea topped with cheese. There’s a little more to it than that simple description, however

There are many reasons milk from mammals is called “Nature’s most perfect food.”