With our increasingly challenging climate and precipitation patterns, tile drainage has become more important than ever for farms to minimize the annual variation in yield and quality of field crops and...

Change doesn’t happen overnight, and what’s worthwhile isn’t always what’s easy. Big changes require big effort — and lots of planning

Every time I leave World Dairy Expo, my heart and my stomach are full — my heart because of the relationships that are nurtured during the week, and my stomach because of all the good food that can...

I’ll let you in on a little secret. I am terrified of bridges. Not the small bridges that are barely noticeable, but the really high bridges that go on forever

Implementing a footbath on your farm provides the opportunity to help the farm’s bottom line

Despite its availability, aspirin has never gone through the process of being approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in cattle

Cornell University’s Jessica McArt, D.V.M., presented, “Start ‘em right with tools to ensure fresh cow success.”

Delayed milk ejection — most often presented as a bimodal milk flow curve — occurs when the cisternal milk fraction is removed before the alveolar milk reaches the gland cistern

With only two and a half months left in the year, many dairy producers are preparing to look at their year-end financials and make a gameplan for next year

The National Dairy Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program will launch Environmental Stewardship (ES) Version 3 in the next few months, helping producers understand on-farm greenhouse gas...

The adoption of precision dairy technologies by dairy farmers is vital information for various stakeholders in the dairy industry

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made an appearance at the last day of World Dairy Expo on Friday, and among the topics he discussed was the timely question of progress on the next farm bill

For the third year in a row, Springhill Kojack Uno-ETV found herself in the center of the ring at the end of the International Guernsey Show

Hoards at Expo captures events at World Dairy Expo from Thursday

Although we are a bit of ways out from fall anhydrous application time, it will soon be here before we know it. Fall application can reduce soil compaction, but it also presents a great probability of...

Hoards at Expo captures events at World Dairy Expo from Tuesday

The International Junior Holstein show kicked off World Dairy Expo’s dairy cattle shows on Sunday, with Mandi Bue of Freedom, Wis., serving as the judge with associate John Erbsen of Lanark, Ill

High Post-Secondary Dairy Cattle Judging Contest High Teams at World Dairy Expo

After decades of phenotypic decline in fertility traits as dairy farmers bred cows to make more milk instead, the industry has more recently seen improvements in heifer conception rate (HCR), cow conception...