On many farms, one of the least intensively managed groups on the farm is the pregnant heifers

At Migliazzo and Sons Dairy of Atwater, Calif., milking towels are kept close by in these handy towel holders. The farm took 3-1/2-gallon plastic pails and cut a hole out of the bottom. Clean towels a

Crave Brothers Farm in Waterloo, Wis., has grown and changed over the years

Organic milk sales have cooled as the very shoppers who drove demand for the specialty product not long ago move on to newer alternatives, leaving dairy sellers and producers grappling with oversupply

Feed costs make up the largest expense on most dairy farms. Forage production and the affiliated cost to grow, harvest, and store forage is a significant portion of the feed costs

Despair, depression, or even a sense of no other way out of a problem can cause people to do the unthinkable — take their own life

We know Bucky Badger is the mascot for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is found at sporting events, band concerts, and all sorts of places in between

When it comes to calf housing, we often think about what’s around the animal (including pen walls and air movement), but how much consideration is given to what lies beneath the calf as bedding?

Thoughts involving business change tend to follow times of extreme profitability, high or low

First Grassland shed 75 dairies in the Upper Midwest last year

We shadowed Pipping Concrete as they built an aboveground manure storage structure on a Wisconsin dairy farm

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

The first rule of the Margin Protection Program for Dairy or MPP-Dairy is that you cannot count on it to save you

We’ve all heard it before: farmers need to tell their story. But why are the stories behind food so important?

I awoke with a feeling of anticipation mixed with distress. As a girl of 4 years old, taking naps was simply a necessity, but I was not about to sleep through the most exciting part of my day

California, Oregon, and Idaho have set their state maximum somatic cell count standards at 500,000 or less, well below than the national level of 750,000

Washington Dairygrams is a condensed listing of dairy prices, feed costs, and industry events

There was a time when mastitis ravaged dairy herds across the globe

Marilyn HersheyOur farm sits right beside a township road. In fact, the road runs right between the main farm and our numerous calf hutches, so we cross the road several times a day. Duane and