191007_ph4
Article
Oct. 7 2019
The National Dairy Council’s (NDC) flagship partnership with the NFL, Fuel Up to Play 60, recently kicked off its tenth year of activities with the start of the new school year
191007_ph2
Article
Oct. 7 2019
For years, it has been a very common practice for farms to treat all cows with antibiotics at the first sign of mastitis
Dohle
Blog
Oct. 4 2019
Dean Dohle of Halfway, Mo., was presented the 29th Klussendorf-MacKenzie Award during the 53rd World Dairy Expo
Gurnsey GC-7612
Blog
Oct. 4 2019
In the International Guernsey Show at World Dairy Expo on Friday, October 4, it was Valley Gem Atlas Malt-ET that was left in the center of the ring at the end of the show
collegiateHT
Blog
Oct. 1 2019
It came down to four Big 10 universities for the team title. At the end, it was the slimmest of margins. Coaches will tell students that every single point counts. And last night, it was just that close
190910_507-connections
Article
Sept. 25 2019
A partnership that was born out of necessity over 35 years ago has fostered a unique opportunity for college students and companies to connect during one of the dairy industry’s busiest weeks of...
HDN_JDM-critique
Blog
Sept. 23 2019
There are three national 4-H dairy contests held each year. The Junior Dairy Management contest held its 33th annual contest last week in Harrisburg, Penn
190902_ph1
Article
Sept. 2 2019
Many dairy producers who enrolled in the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program have already received checks for the first part of the year
Seiler-corn
Article
Aug. 26 2019
While most farmers in the South and West already have their corn silage safely stored away, many in the Midwest and Northeast are still wondering if their corn will reach maturity
pigs_ph3
Article
July 22 2019
What does a deadly disease in hogs have to do with dairy markets? The answer is quite simple . . . pigs eat components of whey, a cheese by-product. Fewer pigs means a plummeting demand for whey exported...
Seiler-Intel_ph
Article
July 15 2019
Margins in the dairy industry in the past several years have forced dairy producers to further fine-tune their financial strategies
MCO-2web
Article
July 3 2019
If you’ve got money in your bank account, does that mean your farm is profitable? If your farm is profitable, does that mean you must have enough cash to pay all your bills?
190701_ph3
Article
July 1 2019
If lower milk prices are the new normal, then it’s time to find ways to evaluate each dollar spent on feed
190624_ph2
Article
June 24 2019
Going rates for agricultural cropland dropped in both Wisconsin and Michigan over the past year
mafia
Blog
June 19 2019
I started advocating as a means to share my farm with the world, or whoever would listen
190617_ph4
Article
June 17 2019
When considering forage fermentation as a measure of forage crop quality, we need to compare it against expected values
Milkfat1924-2018
Article
June 10 2019
For back-to-back years, butterfat levels in the collective U.S. bulk tank posted 0.05 percentage growth
cheese_ph5
Article
June 3 2019
It took over a year for markets to recover
1906_345-chart
Article
June 1 2019
Originally included in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, known to many of us as the farm bill, it has finally reached the point where dairy farmers must decide their level of participation
iStock-SS-card_ph
Article
May 27 2019
This year, the Social Security Administration sent employers across the country, including numerous dairy producers, “no-match” letters