Summer will soon arrive, and our cows will be feeling the heat. According to Nigel Cook, MRCVS, cows are becoming impacted by heat stress at lower and lower temperatures

By creating a new category of regulations, Canadian government officials once again circled the wagons to shelter their domestic dairy markets. While “bringing home” an estimated $150 million...

Red & White Class in the Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest 2017

2017 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest Jersey Class

Ayrshire class in the 2017 Annual Cow Judging Contest

Holstein Class in the Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest 2017

Brown Swiss Class in the 2017 Hoard's Dairyman Cow judging Contest

You’ve heard it before: calves fed a higher plane of nutrition make more milk in the first lactation. But how does it happen?

What will U.S. dairy farming be like in a half century? That was the focus of a topic I presented at the Tucker Endowed Lecture at Michigan State University this past March

I would like to say that I agree with Anne Van Dijk’s “Reader Response: Canada restored its markets”

Easter and Christmas are the two days when most churches are standing-room only. A person must arrive at church 30 minutes ahead of the start of mass to try to get a seat

My brother and I are the third generation to farm the land on our home farm in Dearing, Ga. We are in the “teaching phase” of our business with my daughter and nephew both deciding they wanted...

That last time I cried this much was when we buried my Grandma Pritzl — the last of my four grandparents to pass

One of the best things an operation can do for its future is invest in taking care of calves in the first two months. Although that care can be accomplished a great number of ways

I beg to differ with your article “U.S. farmers lose milk markets in Canada.”

In 2000, the first pair of milking robots, known to many as Automated Milking Systems (AMS), were installed on a commercial dairy farm and have been milking cows ever since

Particularly in tight financial years for agriculture, the argument for finding the economically optimal corn plant population has perpetuated

Wisconsin isn’t known as the dairy state without good reason. Decades of dominance in the area of dairy farms and cow numbers make a good argument for the title “America’s Dairyland.”

No hard working dairy farmer and their family should ever receive a letter with this line — “We regret to inform you effective May 1, 2017, (we) will no longer be able to accept your milk.”All...

China’s record level of dairy imports in 2014 has given dairy producers the impression that the Asian country will be a major buyer of dairy products on world markets into the future