Although it might be entertaining to see cows running toward the feedbunk and eagerly start eating, this is also a sign that they’re hungry. Unfortunately, they might be so hungry that it’s...

“We had 100,000 more cows year-over-year in December. That was the biggest year-over-year advance in some time,” shared Phil Plourd during USDA’s 97th Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum

Introduced more than 40 years ago, the REAL Seal has become one of the most widely recognized label identification programs in the food industry

While bank standards for assessing loans haven’t changed, the risks associated with dairy operations certainly have changed during the pandemic

If volatility has been the defining characteristic of the dairy industry during the last few decades, 2020 was one for the record books

February is one of my all-time favorite months of the year. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner

“Three questions can come from this view of the ag cycle,” said Kevin Bernhardt, extension farm management specialist and University of Wisconsin-Platteville professor

Dairy technology has exploded in the last few decades, and for that we have both innovation and necessity to thank

Dairy product sales, both at home and abroad, have changed more in the past 12 months than in any previous five- or 10-year time frame

The dairy industry has always been dynamic. In the very early years of our country, we moved from farms supplying milk just outside the town limits to railroad shipments into the large cities by the 1800s

The United States is nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and the disease has changed both social and societal norms across the country

There is no denying that dairy farming is a full-time job. Unfortunately, in this dairy economy, and really it seems for some time now, the key to survival is diversification

“We kind of laugh. It feels like it’s been Groundhog Day going all the way back to March 2020, since seemingly every few weeks we get some market-moving news."

The inspiration for a checkoff-led research project sometimes begins during a basic roundtable brainstorm session among my National Dairy Council (NDC) colleagues

Much discussion has unfolded surrounding the income boost to dairy producers from government policy aimed to help offset the effects of COVID-19

The American Dairy Science Association published a study that confirms households purchasing food for children behave differently than all other American households

In 2019, nearly 11 billion pounds of fluid milk, 683 million pounds of cheese, and 662 million pounds of yogurt and other dairy foods moved through federal food assistance programs

Over the last few years, the government has been very involved in the dairy business, providing an estimated $531 million in ad hoc Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments to dairy farmers to offset...

The release of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 on December 29, just as 2020 was concluding, was a welcome start to the new year for dairy

Many dairy proponents who have studied the newly released Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020 to 2025 will tell you that there are many wins for the category