Lameness affects nearly one out of every four dairy cows worldwide. It deteriorates welfare and causes significant economic losses. Burgi addresses factors causing lameness, such as trimming errors, sole...

Dear Tyler, Hug your mama — she could use it. Early years in speech to rocking a 4.0 grade point average gives your mom a reason to cry. Allow her to be proud. You are our oldest and our guinea...

A tutorial, the first of two, on taking notes that will help you give effective oral reasons. This one might be especially useful for beginners, as well as for experienced kids

One of my favorite reasons to read is the chance to transport myself into a different time or place that would otherwise be impossible

One out of 7 — on one day of each seven-day week, every U.S. dairy cow produces milk for the international market

Tulare County, Calif., is the third-largest agricultural county in the U.S. and the biggest dairy county by far. Total gross value of its farm production in 2016 was $6.3 billion

“Consumers are at the helm of redefining food culture today,” stated Shelley Balanko, who is senior vice president of The Hartman Group

At the beginning of May, I took a week between school and starting my internship to go home to my family’s farm

This past month, I had the opportunity to visit the Arlington Cemetery. Having a son currently serving in the military elevated the depth of the trip and my admiration for such a place

We are learning more and more all the time about how the amount of milk we feed a calf can affect future production

There may have been a time when we were at the happiest place on earth as a family of five, having less than a happy time

Mom, it’s been 2,555 days since you left us. But who is counting? It’s cliché, but the saying, “There isn’t a day that goes by without me thinking of you,” is so true

“Milking is so routine, frankly, we don’t even think about it. It just happens,” said Phil Durst, Michigan State University Extension

Michigan now has the highest milk production per cow in the country, and the state has doubled its milk production since 2000

The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture passed the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (ANA18) out of committee on April 18, 2018

This year we had the opportunity to host a group of food bloggers from across the U.S. It was fantastic!

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a cattle trailer? Most of us probably haven’t, but Anthony Bontrager, the trucking supervisor for Country View Calves in Shipshewana, Ind.,...

Writing a résumé was one of the most challenging projects I worked on during my college and high school career

I hate crawling under an electric fence. The thought of catching myself on the wire is not a pleasant one, and I would much rather walk around the meadow to a gate before taking a shortcut

It was time. My old truck, Logwagon, was approaching 300,000 miles. John, our mechanic, had hauled it back from a farm call more than an hour away twice