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March 31 2025
As the calendar turned the page to a new year, USDA reported the number of beef cows dropped by 1% last year, the sixth straight year of decline since the peak in 2019
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Feb. 28 2025
Gravel roads embraced us as we drove home with our newest addition, Jasper
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Feb. 6 2025
Cows will naturally go through a negative energy balance when they enter into lactation as their body adjusts from the dry period into milk production
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Jan. 6 2025
What do you think of first after hearing the word “carbon”?
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Dec. 12 2024
School cafeterias are a gateway for millions of United States schoolchildren to receive access to nourishing meals that include fruits, vegetables, and dairy foods
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July 3 2024
Vegan and animal rights activists are pushing for “plant-based” menus in a growing number of schools
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May 14 2024
Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wis., presented its Hoard’s Dairyman Award to recent graduate Erik Walters
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March 28 2024
Bill Weiss, a professor emeritus from The Ohio State University, calls it the “sampling dilemma.”
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Jan. 25 2024
Currently, USDA rules for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs only allow schools to offer low-fat (skim and 1%) varieties of milk to students
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Jan. 10 2024
When you compete at this level, you will find geniuses that you didn’t know existed
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Jan. 4 2024
No record milk prices were received by farmers in 2023, but like many grocery staples, retail milk prices climbed higher. In fact, the price for a gallon of milk reached a new high last year
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Sept. 27 2023
The weather is cooling, the leaves are starting to turn, and football is back. For dairy enthusiasts, that all means two things: corn silage harvest is underway or complete, and World Dairy Expo will be...
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Sept. 21 2023
Composted animal manure has been used as a soil amendment for years. When done well, its benefits include plant disease suppression, pathogen destruction, manure volume reduction, and improved soil health....
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June 19 2023
Long before American businesses committed to corporate social responsibility, dairy farmers set the precedent for purpose-driven work by producing a product that nourishes youth and families
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April 24 2023
As anyone who has trucked cattle can relate to, moving animals is not always the easiest task
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Nov. 21 2022
Zoom towns became the boom towns last year. With greater acceptance of remote work situations, more people are choosing to move away from bigger population centers.Real estate markets have been red ho
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Oct. 13 2022
Even with its deep and rich history, World Dairy Expo was able to post a pair of new records at this year’s 55th show. As it turns out, cattle were front and center for both new benchmarks
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Sept. 22 2022
Flavored beverage milk sales are up 51.6% over the first seven months of this year when compared to the same time last year within California’s Federal Order No. 51
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Aug. 10 2022
The stickers our milk haulers use to label their sample bottles were getting wet just sitting in our milk house. I used a recycled sour cream container and slit a hole in the side so that the paper ca
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March 7 2022
Celebrate the role dairy plays in childhood nutrition during National School Breakfast Week