“For bunker silos and drive-over piles and similar storage methods, the uppermost layer of forage is more prone to oxygen exposure and loss of dry matter and nutrients,” Iowa State’s...

It’s been a summer where we have found ourselves short on help with a never-ending to-do list

There’s a new resource in town, with the latest on feed and nutrition for your cows. Introducing . . . the Feeding Guide, 4th Edition by Mike Hutjens!

There are not so many clean cooks in the kitchen these days according to a new study from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service

By most accounts, heifer rearing is the second- or third-largest cost category on dairy farms

Even if you have high-quality colostrum, that colostrum must be fed to calves right after birth to stimulate passive transfer of immunoglobulins that ultimately creates immunity in newborn calves

I would like to provide some perspective after reading your Hoard’s Dairyman Intel item “What will the dairy world look like in 2030?”

“Where are our consumers spending time on social media?” I get this question a lot from farmers and dairy industry communication professionals during my training sessions

“If you want 99-plus percent of calves to live, follow the ‘big four’ at calving,” shared Lane Sollenberger with those attending the First International Conference of Calf and Heifer...

In a mid-March omnibus bill, the Dairy Pride Act was passed through Congress instructing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action in restricting the use of the word “milk” on labeling...

Before I state anything else, let me be clear; this is not a post about small farms versus large farms

“It’s a game changer,” shared Ev Thomas of Oak Point Agronomics during the Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, when talking about forage advancements in alfalfa production

By offering a safe place for students to develop and share thoughts about animal welfare within the dairy industry, the University of Guelph has taken a proactive approach to herd health

A new word, nutrichondriac, has evolved to define the group of individuals who have a “preoccupation with negative details of one’s diet and a propensity to self-diagnose food intolerances...

The veterinarian who started a cooperative, partners with Coca-Cola in a hit milk product, and operates perhaps the biggest agro tourism site in the U.S., sees a dairy future filled with milking robots

Diarrhea remains the leading cause of death in dairy calves

Growing up I always enjoyed the time spent off the farm when my siblings and I would go to local and national dairy shows

SilageSnap, a new app available this July for your mobile device, can provide dairy producers and custom operators an accurate method for checking the kernel processor roller settings during harvest

I’m sometimes asked by dairy farmers why they no longer see the checkoff’s advertising on television like they used to

To say that most consumers know little about dairy farming might be generous — and rounding their average knowledge level down to zero might not be totally unfair