Concerns surrounding coronavirus are impacting people across the United States and around the world. As I write this blog, events are being canceled and travel is highly discouraged — all in an attempt...

A few months ago, I had the bright idea that it would be great to start my kids showing cattle and invite their friends to do the same. I thought, “Hey! We can house them and all work with them together!”

“When a cow calves, it is kept in the hospital pen for three days. Hospital pens are checked daily, and we monitor the health of the cows and check for antibiotic residues to ensure quality of milk,”...

We have come a long way in our understanding of fat mobilization in the past decades

Feeding cows to reach their peakby Bill Weiss, The Ohio State Universitysponsored by QLF The transition period sets the stage for a successful lactation, and nutrition plays a major role

During the December Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, Bill Weiss from The Ohio State University about ration management during the transition period in “Feeding cows to reach their peak.”

Many scientists and animal breeders are keenly interested in directly altering a portion of an organism’s genome to incorporate specific traits

“The entire dairy is equipped with headlocks. Lockup time is one of our main focuses, and our goal is 30 minutes or less of lockup time,” said Chris Terra, a Platinum winner of the Dairy Cattle...

Certainly, social stress in dairy cattle has gained traction as we have learned more about stress’s impact on cattle performance

Just like stress in humans, stress in cows isn’t like other diseases we treat. Instead of being diagnosed the cow is sick or the cow is not, stress is something that amasses as one stress piles on...

As winter is just around the corner, planning for housing of pasture animals is likely already underway

“Animal welfare is the result of the positive outcome of the interaction between humans and the animals,” said Robert Hagevoort, of New Mexico State University during the monthly webinar

Lameness can be a fairly ambiguous term on dairy farms, but we know that it is consistently one of the most prevalent interferences with healthy dairy production

Every time a person sprays while cows are still in the parlor, bacteria are being pushed through the air and onto cows

With over 500,000 cows in the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture, Tulare County built upon its title as the nation’s largest dairy county

The selection of Grand Champion of the International Jersey Show at the 2019 World Dairy Expo came down to a very close placing for Judge Jack Lomeo Jr. and his associate judge, Brent Walker

Calcium status surrounding calving is not only important, but it also varies significantly depending on the cow

When humans are hot or uncomfortable, they tend to want a little more personal space. For some reason, cows have the opposite reaction, which leads to a problem called bunching

The same question has been raised time and again in conversations about the future of the dairy industry