While many unknowns remain regarding 2021 milk prices, there are a few factors with major impacts that we do know details about

During the last decade, the U.S. dairy industry has seen both butterfat prices and protein prices drive farm gate milk checks

As the wild ride that has been 2020 comes to a close, dairy economists have their eyes directed toward what’s in store for 2021

While there is a good amount of turnover in leadership of the agriculture committees in Congress, the agriculture industry as a whole also has its attention focused on a critically important appointment...

Change is a scary thing, and there will be no shortage of that in Washington, D.C., when it comes to agriculture leaders in the next Congress and administration

The fundamental question bouncing around the minds of many dairy operators throughout 2020 is probably the one posed in the title of this article

If you asked a group of dairy farmers from across the country to define the function of the Federal Milk Marketing Orders, you might get a wide range of answers

For the same reason that many dairy economists are unwilling to put too much stock in predicting future milk prices, 2020 has left the industry with another lesson just as applicable to federal order pricing:...

Conversations involving risk management and forward contracting often end up resulting in a discussion of “one time.”

Stability, predictability, and adequacy — those are three things farmers require from dairy markets

Decades of financial advice will offer the same conclusion to the question, “How much cash does a dairy need to have on hand?”

While some dairy products have seen dramatic gains in purchases due to COVID-19 and other products such as yogurt have seen consumers curtail buying, butter has been somewhere in the middle

The COVID-19 pandemic has most certainly impacted the financial stability of the country, put the economy into recession, and even raised concerns of a coming depression

Since a 2016 referendum in Great Britain, markets around the world have wondered if the country’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) would open up an opportunity for trade

The title of this article, “You can’t sell your cheese here,” is a sentiment that is becoming more common for American cheese producers to hear while trying to market their products around...

Geographical indicators (GIs) have been a hot topic in the last several years as countries make trade agreements across the globe

When COVID-19 first disrupted dairy supply chains, we all saw the grocery store signs

Dairy products have an important and well-recognized role in retail locations. That’s been true for many years, and it’s not a market that the industry hopes to cede in any way

For nearly every dairy farmer, corn silage harvest season is one of the most important periods of the entire year. As more and more farms transition toward rations high in corn silage, it becomes even

In 2019, per capita consumption of dairy products reached 653 pounds per person in America, achieving levels not seen since the 1960s when Lyndon Johnson was in office