The contribution farmers make to the dairy checkoff is used in many ways to promote the consumption of milk and dairy products

Dairying provides many little instances of joy

Making good decisions requires having good information. However, it also requires interpreting that information appropriately and accurately

New perspective comes from giving people the space to follow their ideas. Young farmers and agriculturalists need that permission

This month marks a full year of declining U.S. milk production growth. Beginning last June . . . within the space of four months . . . production growth downshifted from 4.6% annual growth to nearly 1

My dad spoke at the funeral for a man who worked for us for most of his life and did his own rendition of “So God made a farmer.”

“The organic dairy sector witnessed a demand surge as the COVID-19 pandemic first gripped the nation,” shared Organic Valley’s Travis Forgues during testimony on June 22

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Your dairy experience can bring value to careers both inside and outside of agriculture

“Manufacturers don’t actually know what they will have to pay for your milk until federal orders deliver the monthly announcement of prices,” wrote Mark Stephenson

Corn Silage: From Seed to Feed is the latest offering from the Hoard’s Dairyman bookstore

That first meal of colostrum can truly set the stage for calfhood and beyond

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has opened the door to federal order modernization in response to industry interest in looking at a variety of changes

The author is a professor emeritus at University of Illinois, Urbana.Questions are arriving from around the globe, inquiring about strategies to reduce feed costs given $7 to $8 per bushel corn and so

After birth, our calves are moved to individual pens with heat lamps. With four pens next to each other, it was a struggle to determine which cord went with the heat lamp for each pen

When it comes to raising heifers, we don’t want them to grow too slowly – or too fast

Many dairies across the country are still feeding contracted or stored-on-farm feeds and forages. It’s a blessing given the upheaval in feed markets in the past months

Recently, I attended a herd health talk in which the presenter described a disease as the “silent thief,” and it struck me that, in my experience, Prototheca mastitis could be viewed analogously

Traditionally, economists who follow dairy would predict that high milk prices bring forth more cows and more milk production

I wanted to express some feedback on the article, “Focus on retaining your best employees,” published on April 7, 2022