While automated milking systems sound appealing in many aspects, it takes careful consideration to determine if robotics are the right fit for a dairy

Finding solutions that work for everyone is a strength of the U.S. dairy industry

The Lone Star State continued its meteoric flight path on milk production as its 360 dairy farms collectively produced nearly 1 billion pounds of new milk in back-to-back years

Jim Davenport, a dairy farmer from Ancramdale, N.Y., presents “Clean cows make clean milk.” According to Davenport, “The most important contact surface on the dairy is the teat and the...

Much like a pop quiz, regular state and federal inspections keep dairy farmers on their toes

Plans for the 54th World Dairy Expo®, set for September 28 through October 2, continue to progress at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Expo recognizes that uncertainty rema

Oklahoma State University created a model that compares business and estate transition strategies and the probability of success

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative announced today that once again it will award $1,000 scholarships to children of its members.Applicants must be high school seniors, high school graduates or colleg

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