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Blog
April 23 2018
A typical stroll down the grocery store aisle exposes the shopper to almost 40,000 different products
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Article
April 23 2018
USDA and the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) conduct baseline projections each year for a number of agricultural sectors
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Article
April 23 2018
As those of us in dairy circles continue to hope for a recovery, the rest of the economy keeps growing
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Blog
April 11 2018
I don’t actually know how to fix the dairy industry. I know that it will be a multistep process
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Article
April 9 2018
A couple of months ago the details were released regarding changes to the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy)
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Blog
April 5 2018
People have the perspective that dairy farmers have no life. That they work sunup to sundown, and that they eat, sleep, and breathe farming
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Article
March 25 2018
As Wisconsin’s 70th Alice in Dairyland, I have the privilege of traveling across the state and sharing many messages about Wisconsin’s diverse agriculture industry
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Blog
March 19 2018
What will dairy look like in the future? It was that question that spurred dairy consultant Jack Britt to collaborate with a team of experts to examine dairying in the future
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Article
March 12 2018
While labor efficiency rose 2.3, labor costs climbed 7.2 percent, wiping away any gains in getting more work done on a daily basis through implementing technology
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Article
March 12 2018
At $2.2 million per farm, equity positions reached a new pinnacle for U.S. dairy farmers in 2016
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Article
March 10 2018
While some young dairy enthusiasts grow up participating in dairy cattle judging and quiz bowl contests, students with an interest in dairy products can have a similar experience
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Blog
March 8 2018
My dad and I have been writing for the Hoard’s Dairyman blog together as a team for a while now
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Article
March 5 2018
To emphasize the importance of a healthy dairy sector to the overall U.S. economy, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) commissioned an economic research firm to quantify that impact
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Blog
March 5 2018
Each spring baseball players and prospects display their skills in the hopes of making a major league roster
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Article
Feb. 26 2018
Overall, 1,600 dairy farms across the United States called it quits last year. That reduced the number of commercial dairy farms in the U.S. to 40,219
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Article
Feb. 19 2018
When it comes to positive tank loads of milk for antibiotic residues, dairy farmers matched the previous year’s historic accomplishment
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Blog
Feb. 15 2018
It has been bitterly cold here in East Moline, Ill. As I write this blog, we are subzero with more than a foot of snow on the ground
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Article
Feb. 12 2018
When 97.5 percent of milk — 149.7 billion pounds of the total 153.4 billion pounds of 2017 MPP-Dairy production history — was signed up at the $4 coverage level, it was clear that the Margin...
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Article
Feb. 12 2018
Falling cow numbers and easing milk production in California were one of the dairy industry’s big stories in 2017