The new year is now two months under our belt. How many of you have kept up on your New Year’s resolutions? The simple resolutions I vowed to work on, and I am thankfully still working on today

NEAR-TERM FUTURES CLIMBED 15 cents through February trading to reach a $14.55 average for March to August Class III contracts, with a low of $13.84 for April to a $15.61 high for August

We knew it was coming, and there wasn’t anything we could do but buckle down and await the arrival of the arctic forecast. Not only was the impending weather all over the news

A $16.05 ALL-MILK PRICE FOR 2018, with a $15.70 to $16.40 range, has been pegged by USDA economists in World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates

Karen Bohnert I’ve learned this the hard way. For more than four years, I’ve battled with anxiety

EVEN THOUGH NEW ZEALAND MILK FLOW FELL 2 percent due to an extended drought, Europe’s high stocks of skim milk powder have been weighing down worldwide milk protein prices

Jordan Siemers was high individual and high reasons individual at the 2014 National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest

Ben Powers was high individual at the 2015 National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest. He was also High Individual in reasons and earned a perfect 50 when he delivered this set of reasons in the actual contest

Jenna Metzler provides her oral reasons that she used in the 2015 National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest. She earned a score of 49 in the actual contest on these oral reasons

Sarah Thomas gives a set of oral reasons after competing at the 2015 National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest. She earned a perfect score on the class placing, and a 49 on her reasons score

It is hard to believe that we closed out 2017. I probably say this every year, but it seems that this one flew by in record time

CLASS III FUTURES FELL NEARLY $3 per cwt. over the past six months. In August 2017, February to July 2018 contracts averaged $16.70 on the CME. In early January, that same portfolio traded at $13.90

Karen Bohnert Not too long after I wrote about my oldest son being praised for being the coachable kid, Tyler did a 180- degree turnaround

As printed in our January 10, 2018 issue . . .THE 2018 ALL-MILK PRICE COULD AVERAGE $16.50 per cwt., down $1.15 from 2017 and only 20 cents better than 2016, predicted NMPF’s Peter Vitaliano in his

In life, there are moments that shape who you are. Sometimes those moments are happy and sometimes they are not. Today I lost a cow. It was not just any cow

It’s a date that was a major turning point for our farm. It’s the day our calf program was literally revolutionized

Before this piece starts the arguments for and against the above stated question, I want to simply open this as a conversation

There is nothing more intimidating to me in a kitchen than a pile of dirty dishes. The larger it grows the less I want to deal with it

Earlier this month, I flew to Oregon to milk cows while my dad had surgery. I had instructions and milked with him from start to finish for three days prior to his departure

All the animals are clipped, the tack is loaded, and the show whites are packed. All of this only means one thing, it’s fair time!