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

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...

Margins in the dairy industry in the past several years have forced dairy producers to further fine-tune their financial strategies

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?

If lower milk prices are the new normal, then it’s time to find ways to evaluate each dollar spent on feed

Going rates for agricultural cropland dropped in both Wisconsin and Michigan over the past year

I started advocating as a means to share my farm with the world, or whoever would listen

When considering forage fermentation as a measure of forage crop quality, we need to compare it against expected values

For back-to-back years, butterfat levels in the collective U.S. bulk tank posted 0.05 percentage growth

It took over a year for markets to recover

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

This year, the Social Security Administration sent employers across the country, including numerous dairy producers, “no-match” letters

In today’s modern dairy world, milking equipment is an essential part of the milk harvesting process. Nearly every lactating cow is touched by a milking machine at least two or three times per day

Despite some significant headwinds, 2018 was a record year for U.S. dairy exporters. Export volume was up 10 percent from the prior year, led by all-time highs in overseas shipments of nonfat dry milk

“When you’re in an environment of low margin, high volatility, the reactive manager gets wiped out,” explained Virginia Tech’s David Kohl at the recent Tri-State Dairy Nutrition...

If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's that we don't know anything

Continued low milk prices make cost control essential on dairy farms. Milk prices may improve in the second half of the year, but it’s going to be somewhat longer before they reach profitable levels

Leadership is about perception. Body language and word choice matter. When both are absent, football teams and dairy farm teams flounder

Countless statistics help quantify the U.S. dairy sector. But if one map could most clearly depict the U.S. dairy industry, it’s this one, which compares each state’s milk production to its...

Growing up and grocery shopping with my mom, I remember grabbing cheese, butter, cottage cheese, milk, and yogurt almost every time we went to the store