The collective bargaining clout of the nation’s top 50 cooperatives continued to grow in 2017

You were my life cheerleader, and I'm so thankful for that. I wish you could see your grandchildren now

Up until about two weeks ago, the Upper Midwest and Northeast were rushing toward maturity with warm temperatures and relatively dry conditions

Tree bark and wood are robust analogies for the impact that lignin has within plant cell walls. Lignin is a structural component of plant cell walls, nested within both acid detergent (ADF) and neutral...

Have you heard of the four-legged milk stool? A popular analogy among author Gary Sipiorki’s talks and Money Matters column articles, he makes the argument that financial awareness is as critical...

With a growing world population, we hear time and again that we will have to feed more people with fewer farmers and less resources

The agriculture community in Tulare, Calif., has been working out lately and has developed a few muscles

It’s not just what we feed calves when they are young, but also how they are fed that will set the stage for their long-term eating behavior

A logical conclusion drawn by some dairy producers is that cows that produce large amounts of milk early in lactation don’t breed back as well

So here is saluting you, Robert Morris Davidson, a man who I am blessed and honored to call both my father and my life coach. Today, we celebrate you by moving heifers as a family unit and coming inside...

Dairy isn’t the only agricultural commodity facing a downturn in pay prices. In its latest forecast, USDA projects that farm income will be $59.5 billion nationally in 2018

I attended the Wisconsin Junior Holstein convention this past weekend

We developed a bale mover out of pallets to keep bales from sitting on the dirty ground. This also helped to keep the bale supported on one side so it wouldn’t fall apart while we took what we neede

“All heifers are bred four times and flagged as a do not breed (DNB) on our Dairy Comp 305 computer program after their fourth breeding. If open, they are sold,” explained Kurt Wierda

Late fall brings more comfortable conditions for both cows and people in Georgia

We started chopping our corn silage July 20 this year and finished chopping August 18. It has definitely been one of the longest silage seasons I have ever encountered. We planted a good bit more corn

“So, how did it feel marrying into a farm family?” is a question I often get asked as a young female dairy farmer

A severe hailstorm ripped through northeast Wisconsin’s dairy country on July 7. In certain areas of Manitowoc County, the corn crop looked more like sugarcane plants

It’s been over two months since the 2017 Western Dairy Conference was held, but my brain is still thinking about something one speaker said: “Fifty percent of U.S. dairies will change ownership

While working on homework late one night, my roommate crept into my room to inform me about the wildfires, which were sweeping the Plains only a few hours from our home