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

As agriculture’s labor pool continues to shrink, the dairy industry faces the challenging reality of attracting and retaining employees. Other businesses like construction, landscaping, hotels, and...

Agronomically speaking, healthier corn plants equate to improved crop performance and yield. Crop protection practices resulting in healthier corn likely also contribute to more efficiency with nutrient...

They say the spots on a Holstein are as unique as a human fingerprint. There might be an even better comparison for cattle, though — the animal’s muzzle

Do year-over-year (YOY) milk production gains and discounted spot milk signal a surplus?