The coronavirus pandemic is a once in a generation event that has wreaked havoc on the dairy market. Prices have collapsed, supply chains are damaged, and milk dumping has tragically become widespread

Vaccinations serve a vital role in maintaining animal wellbeing on today’s dairies. Many of those vaccinations are given early in life and provide a foundation for overall herd health

Dairy farmers will definitely need to make a trip to their respective USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)

There are few things worse for a dairy farmer than seeing fresh milk literally poured down the drain

It’s June Dairy Month, and we need to tell dairy’s great story

Is the COVID-19 pandemic in our rearview mirror? University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mark Stephenson said he would not take the question mark off that statement just yet

The pandemic-related bottlenecks for agriculture have been well-documented in news reports. The question stands: Which ones can be remedied moving forward?

With the turmoil of dairy markets the past few months, farmers may likely be looking a bit deeper into their balance sheets and income statements for 2020

Financial strategy for dairy farms during COVID-19 has looked a little bit like a roller coaster. While milk prices plummeted and then started to rebound, many farmers revisited their budgets

Farmers and ranchers who are feeling the financial impacts of the current COVID-19 situation have been eagerly waiting for more details about the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP)

The projected aid for dairy comes to $6.18 per hundredweight. However, that money will be split into two payments of $4.71 and $1.47 per cwt., respectively

You might be thinking that with COVID-19 stay-at-home rules in place and limits on how many people can gather, your annual National Dairy Month farm tour should be canceled, too

Dairy herds have made great strides in reproductive efficiency over the years. One only has to look at numbers from just two decades ago to note these remarkable improvements

The numbers are in . . . the national bulk tank climbed to a 3.92% milkfat average in 2019. That’s up from 3.89% just one year earlier

Roughly one day each week, every U.S. dairy cow’s milk production goes into making dairy products that will be exported to another country

Because of COVID-19, every facet of the dairy industry was dealt a heavy blow. Across the dairy case, every product sustained significant demand drops

I always knew May was special, but I had no clue that there were so many days that could cause us to pause

Dairy producer Kevin Solum has farmed his whole life, but he’s learned a tremendous amount more about managing cows in the 18 months since eight automated milking systems were installed

“Remember that a cow is a mother, and her calf is a baby.” — W.D. Hoard

The pile up of tight financial years since 2015 has caused many producers to take incredibly sharp pencils to their operating budgets