Despair, depression, or even a sense of no other way out of a problem can cause people to do the unthinkable — take their own life

One out of 7 — on one day of each seven-day week, every U.S. dairy cow produces milk for the international market

While the program may invoke trepidation or blasé from dairy farmers, those who sign up for the 2018 Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) will receive a payment on the initial 5 million...

ON JUNE 1, THE SIGN-UP PERIOD WILL CLOSE for the new Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy). Due to February legislation, this year’s coverage will be retroactive to January 1, 2018

While it still stands on top of “Milk Mountain,” California only accounted for 18.47 percent of the nation’s milk flow last year

First Grassland shed 75 dairies in the Upper Midwest last year

Everyone who milks cows for a living should take a serious look at the revamped Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)

CLASS III FUTURES CLIMBED 75 CENTS per hundredweight during early March to late April trading on the CME. May to December contracts averaged $16.05, with a September and October high of $16.50

In just five years, Class I milk sales have slid from 35.5 percent to 30 percent. That’s according to Federal Milk Marketing Order data that compares 2012 to 2017

Michigan now has the highest milk production per cow in the country, and the state has doubled its milk production since 2000

“You are smart.” “You know cows.” “You can tell stories.”

$1,320. That’s the price quoted for dairy herd replacements by USDA in its April 2018 Agricultural Prices

One nut has surpassed dairy while another nut is nipping at dairy’s heels

It’s been estimated that 2 percent of America’s cows are now milked with robots. That number climbs to nearly 15 percent when looking north of the border

Washington Dairygrams is a condensed listing of dairy prices, feed costs, and industry events

Farmers get only 30 cents from every $1 spent,” read the headline in the March 26, 2018, Hoard’s Dairyman Intel. When consumers spent $1 on dairy products in 2017, dairy farmers received 30...

USDA and the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) conduct baseline projections each year for a number of agricultural sectors

At $2.61 per pound, butterfat prices climbed 13 percent last year to post a record high in the Northeast Federal Milk Market Order

MANURE-RELATED AIR EMISSIONS do not have to be reported under CERCLA or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

There are two great higher-learning opportunities via webinars taking place today, Monday, April 9 at noon Central Standard Time.