Last year, 96% of all farms across the U.S. were family-owned. Those businesses produced 83% of our country’s agricultural output

Managing a farm to support a family is not the idyllic picture of animal caretaking we often see online or in the media

Though 2023 has largely been a financial disappointment for dairy farmers, those effects have been somewhat buffered by the strong milk prices received through much of last year. That’s reflected...

Dairy’s data-driven technological revolution opens new and exciting opportunities in cow care and labor efficiency

“If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.” This famous phrase comes from management guru Peter Drucker. It holds especially true for dairy farmers who need to make extra efforts to enhance...

With burgeoning demand for high-solids dairy products and financial incentives in place to deliver higher solids milk, Upper Midwest dairy farmers continue to set new benchmarks for butterfat and prot

Two of our dairy’s key advisers retired recently. Now, we are looking forward to developing new relationships with their successors

When does a farm become a factory farm?Fifty-one cows? 201 cows? 301 cows? 501 cows? If it does not allow pasture access?It is a meaningless phrase. Nothing happens to cows on a big dairy that d

As a dairy farmer, the phrase “we are a factory farm” is probably a phrase that no one has a desire to utter. However, during the October 12, 2022, Hoard’s Dairyman DairyLivestream, Colorado...

For many dairy farmers, the lines between family and farm are blurred. While there are many positive aspects when family members work together, it can also be challenging

People who use the term, “factory farm,” are creating an inaccurate reality for consumers. Don’t be one of them and bring down other dairy farms

“Solar needs land. So do farms. Will that drive up food prices?” That’s a question posed by Barron’s Lisa Beilfuss her article in the July 25, 2022, edition of the financial publication

Recent reductions in milk supplies have contributed to record milk prices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent monthly outlook projects that annual 2022 milk production

Dairy animals have long also played their part in the beef supply chain, but in recent years, dairy farmers have stepped up the quality of their contribution

The question of where future milk production growth in the U.S. will occur has been frequently discussed over the years

Conversations about calf feeding often focus on the liquid portion of the diet, either milk or milk replacer, but calf starter is an important part of the equation, too

Most people would not consider a barnyard to be a particularly high-tech place or a location where drones might be at work. Even so, you could easily spot a drone flying around at a farm these days

In May, the U.S. dairy herd expanded to its highest level in 27 years, climbing to over 9.5 million head

As of 2017, nearly 300,000 acres of cover crops were planted across New York state. That’s 7% of the state’s total cropland, and that land number continues to grow