Did you milk her for all she’s worth?” With due respect to my mentor and colleague, Don Sanders, who wrote a book by this title, I suggest that we leave a little gas in the tank for our retiring...

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has worked with federal agencies on cyber issues for more than two decades

The higher proportion of corn silage in many dairy cow rations has become old news in some sense

Pathogens that cause mastitis can be transferred via the environment or the milking process

We can connect with health-conscious consumers where they are doing their grocery shopping

On dairy farms, efforts to improve feed efficiency often revolve around the lactating cows, but other groups within the herd can be an important part of the puzzle

DAIRY producers are aware of the importance of feeding quality colostrum within the first two hours of birth (and surely within six hours). Colostrum provides immunity as antibodies

Lyme disease can be difficult to diagnose and even trickier to treat. In agriculture, workers and animals are outdoors for the majority of the day, making tick bite prevention paramount

Almost every dairy farmer is also an employer. That means in addition to all the work that surrounds owning and caring for cattle, dairy producers must be proficient in human resources

Consumers slowed dairy consumption in response to high levels of inflation, which has risen by 17% over the last three years

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Other factors play a role, of course, but cows that are milked more frequently tend to give more milk

When you’re out on the farm updating identification tags on animals, it can get disorganized when you’re looking through a pile of ear tags that you’re pulling from your pocket

The growing season is off to an unexpected start

As I was walking through one of our freestall barns bringing fetch cows up to get milked, it dawned on me that farmers have some very peculiar, yet somewhat boastworthy talents

Calfhood diseases can significantly affect heifer replacement rates, short-term profitability, and long-term sustainability. One often overlooked aspect contributing to this is oxidative stress

Today’s dairy producers recognize that carbon footprints and environmental sustainability are no longer buzzwords; they are expectations

Now that planting is in full swing for most parts of the country, the next task farmers will be faced with is forage harvesting

There’s nothing wrong with seeking a bit of balance

In agriculture, we spend a lot of time with data — collecting it, analyzing it, debating it, and using it for decision making