June 2023 Hoard's Dairyman classifieds

This spring, an advertising campaign developed by the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) captured the internet when it parodied the rise of alternative milk beverages by proclaiming that actress...

During my reign as the 2022 Virginia Dairy Princess, I was asked a particularly interesting question, “What do you think cows would say if they could talk?”

It takes a lot of momentum to get through the summer months. The days are long, the outside work is screaming to be done, and if a farmer sees daylight, they see an opportunity to do more

As the season rolls on, many baseball teams are recognizing mid-season adjustments are necessary to improve their chances for success. In baseball, success is defined by achieving the postseason and advancing

Disease can have a significant impact on both dairy cattle welfare and the financial success of the entire dairy industry

An outbreak of salmonella can be costly to a farm in many ways

A farm can be a great place to raise children

Even before heat stress affects people, dairy cattle around the globe feel the negative impacts during hot weather seasons much sooner

CME spot cheese prices have been trending down since mid-March with both blocks and barrels trading as low as the $1.40 range by mid-May

Striving to analyze and understand milk price changes, much less projecting future behavior, is an ever-changing exercise

I took a walk out to our calf hutches last week to begin summer preparations to that area of our farm

Let’s talk about first-calf heifers, or, as I like to call them, first-calf velociraptors

While dairy product sales have steadily grown over the past several decades, fluid milk consumption has dropped repeatedly

I used to have a poster in my office that said, “Everything I learned, I learned from a cow.”

May 2023 Hoard's Dairyman Classifieds

It doesn’t take much online searching these days to find someone or something proclaiming that our food system is “broken” and drastic changes are needed to fix it

The march to milk-pricing modernization reached another milestone this month, as the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) submitted to USDA our comprehensive proposal for Federal Milk Marketing Order...

When we started milking in our robotic milking facility, we were fetching cows that hadn’t come up to milk on their own seven to eight times per day

During my time working as a county-based extension educator, one of the questions I was asked most often was the going rate for custom work