And the winner is . . . The Holstein! Although the Jersey Grand Champion, Musqie Iatola Martha-ET took home Supreme Champion honors at the 50th World Dairy Expo

We get pretty excited around this time of year. We live in a very small town and do some different things for the community

Out with the old and in with the new. That’s the nature of food fads. Perhaps one of the best examples of this truth is the explosion in popularity of Greek yogurt

Likened to a sieve, the digestive tract of a newborn calf is a catch-22 for everything in its environment. Immunoglobulins, nutrients, and bacteria alike have free rein in the digestive tract

That was a question I posed to Taco Bell’s Food and Beverage Innovation Team on a visit to its Irvine, Calif., corporate headquarters in mid September. “When we traditionally looked at the...

"You always . . .” “Yeah, well you never . . .” Imagine those phrases, spoken in a loud, angry voice, and you can probably finish the sentences with words that you have heard uttered...

One of the most important economic factors that determines a milking herd’s profitability is the average days in milk (DIM). That parameter obviously depends on getting the cow pregnant early

Over the past generation, one cheese, above all others, carried the dairy industry. What was the variety? Mozzarella. Since 1975, U.S. consumption of this variety has grown from 2.11 to 11.27 pounds

Though U.S. milk prices have moved off the lows of this summer, it is unclear whether those prices will continue that upward track in 2017

Cheese has traditionally been a staple in the world of wine tasting. Why is that? The science behind the pairing boils down to positive sensory interactions experienced when consuming the two together

“We do not have or use live bulls on our dairy. Cows that are difficult breeders are usually double-bred and some are even given GnRH,” said Steve Paider with Seidl Mountain View Dairy

“Inflammation around calving: What does it mean and how should we approach it?”by Barry Bradford, Kansas StateBrought to you by Virtus Nutrition (www.virtusnutrition.com)

One of the most important economic factors that determines a milking herd’s profitability is the average days in milk (DIM). That parameter obviously depends on getting the cow pregnant early in...

All I needed to make this homemade calf hutch door to protect calves during winter storms was a pallet, a tarp, staples, nails, baler twine, and slat wood. First, I took a tarp and folded it so

I recall many cold mornings of feeding calves while growing up. On my family’s 150-cow farm, I would shiver along, wearing at least four layers of clothes, from hutch to hutch

“When I started at Taco Bell 10 years ago, there was this idea of the cheese-stuffed taco,” stated Steven Gomez who heads up the franchises’ Food and Beverage Innovation Team

“We place postfresh cows, 1 to 45 days in milk, into one of two groups: first-lactation only and second-lactation and greater cows,” said Dale Mattoon, a Platinum Winner

With its two fused tortilla shells and Pepper Jack cheese in the secret pocket, Taco Bell staffers knew the Quesalupa would be all about the cheese . . . more specifically the cheese pull

In recent years, a great amount of discussion has surrounded the determination of optimal stocking density based on economic and health-related measures