Ryan Ebert has been the Art Director at Hoard's Dairyman for the past 7 years. His main responsibility is layout and design of the magazine but his capabilities and duties go far beyond that to photography,...
Views of Expo - Wednesday Return to Hoard's at Expo page. Brought to you by Bayer HealthCare. To learn more about Bayer's products, visit www.bayerlivestock.com. Ryan Ebert has been the Art Director at...
Views from Tuesday at World Dairy Expo. Ryan Ebert has been the Art Director at Hoard's Dairyman for the past 7 years. His main responsibility is layout and design of the magazine but his capabilities...
Expo seminar said the key to answering the hard questions is showing you care. by Maggie Seiler, Editorial Intern Answering the onslaught of consumer concerns is a very real challenge facing dairy producers...
A 26-point spread separated Wisconsin's Jordan Seimers from Michigan's Lucas Moser. by Amanda Smith, Hoard's Dairyman Associate Editor The stars aligned at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest...
Nearly 300 individuals converge on Fort Atkinson for judging practice. Nearly 300 attended the judging workout at the Hoard's Dairyman Farm on Sunday morning. Hoard's Dairyman magazine and farm staff prepared...
Those promoting vegan agendas have spent a great deal of time, energy and resources trying to closely emulate the qualities of animal-based food products. The latest project reported by the green-leaning...
Handy Hint: August 25, 2014 Keep vaccination supplies handy We created a belt that makes vaccinating calves easier. We took a carpenter apron and riveted three PVC clamps to the belt. Then we cut a PVC...
It's sadly ironic to say that public frustration with California's epic drought is a fluid situation. Mandatory water use cutbacks, brown lawns, "water cops" who fine violators, rapidly drying reservoirs...
Today, more than 15 percent of domestic milk production on a milk solids basis is being exported, and that proportion only looks to go up. The OECD-FAO 2013-2022 Agricultural Outlook report anticipates...
Reader Response: Buildings versus education The Reader Response "Focus on education, not buildings" echoes a complaint I have had for a long time about public education at the K-12 level, where the vast...
America wasted 31 percent of its available food supply in 2010. That's right . . .of the 430 billion pounds of food produced by American farms that eventually reached the supply chain, 133 billion pounds...
Much of the action in dairy feed prices has centered on soybean meal and its record-setting pace of exports the past three months. USDA crunched numbers on soybean crush, domestic use and export commitments,...
Amid a variety of feed storage options, plastic silage bags are gaining in popularity. They offer a lower cost, lower investment method of storage. Most importantly, silage bags provide a great environment...
The old saying "Cows are creatures of habit" has a lot of truth. Unfortunately, it inevitably runs into another old saying that has a lot of truth, too: "Change is the only constant in life."
While dairymen do not like rising feed and protein prices, it must be recognized that many of the same world export markets that are currently driving up protein and grain costs are the same markets that...
An island nation half the size of Wisconsin with nearly as many cows, Ireland's milk production, along with that of the European Union, has been on lockdown for the past 30 years. Hosted by Enterprise-Ireland,...
Dairy producers are living a milk price dream right now, even though scars from the nightmare five years ago are not fully healed. It's a bust-to-boom turnaround of staggering proportions that producers...
by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor Even though the Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding now calculates all U.S. genetic evaluations, it is clear USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) laboratory in Beltsville,...
