Stewarding the health of their land, water, air, and animals is something dairy farmers have been doing for generations. Putting benchmarks and numbers on those efforts is a much more recent need
Last year saw a record-high All-Milk price, with Class III and Class IV averaging $24 and $22 per hundredweight (cwt.), respectively. Overall, that $24 Class IV price was the highest on record
Wildfires are nature’s way of renewing the landscape. However, Mother Nature’s wildfires have grown larger and raged longer in recent years, driven by larger reserves of stored fuel across...
During this school year, I have the pleasure of being an intern with Edge Dairy Cooperative, a group that is partnered with Minnesota Milk Producers Association
Calves are born into a world filled with bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can cause illness or even death in these young animals. For protection, the body develops an immune system
Although FDA established a standard of identity for milk in 1973, that standard of identity must only be followed by products that purport to be or are represented as milk
Over the past few weeks, our Goeser household has had a fair amount of sluggish behavior following bacterial and viral-borne illnesses that ran through our family
“There should be a law against that! It’s so buttery, flaky, and delicious!” exclaimed Luke Zahm during the February 16, 2023, episode of the Wisconsin Foodie
It’s a simple concept, but doing composting well is not just a matter of letting soiled material sit and cure, said Brian Dougherty during an Iowa State University Extension webinar. Instead, he...
Farms of all shapes and sizes are taking unique steps to be more environmentally friendly. Some of these actions are just part of normal, everyday operations. The fact that cows can turn food humans c
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
It was confusing figuring out which valves needed to be turned if we wanted to shut off the water to a certain part of our dairy barn. We took blank ear tags and wrote on them which part of the barn t
Backyard hobbyist farmers often become the best advocates for full-time farmers. That’s because these new entrants into animal agriculture or gardening circles often learn these farming realities...
