Manure is a valuable commodity that provides needed nutrients for crop acres, but it takes multiple steps to get it from Point A to Point B. Most times, moving manure from storage to the field happens...
I have a response to two of the letters you received on cloned milk. 1) The letter writer opposed to clones tells us to trust him. "Reader Response: Disagree on milk from clones." Why should we? How is...
While the U.S. has exported more dairy products in 10 of the last 11 years, not one of America's dairy companies ranks among the world's top five in sales, according to Rabobank's most recent Global Dairy...
Hemorrhagic bowel syndrome (HBS) was first detected in the early 1990s in dairy herds. Since that time, it has become a more common issue in the industry affecting all breeds of cattle and especially Brown...
I read your response to the Consumer Reports article (Consumer Reports offers poor advice on milk) on drinking milk from cloned cows. I hope that Hoard's Dairyman will be sending Consumer Reports this...
Cloned milk is very much different from the milk it is replacing, as reported in your July 7 Hoard's Dairyman Intel "Consumer Reports offers poor advice on milk." Trust me! (I know that deep down inside,...
Irish dairy production has been at a standstill since the imposition of quotas in 1984. As April 2015 looms on the horizon, producers are quickly preparing for this production veil to lift
Let's get rules published on dairy insurance by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor Take a look at the calendar. Exactly 158 days have passed since President Obama signed the farm bill on February 7, 2014. Exactly...
Growth. Also known as improvement, advancement, prosperity or profit. Defined by Merriam-Webster as "progressive development." Growth on your dairy farm doesn't necessarily mean adding more cows, diversifying...
At 7 a.m. on a typical June day, most young people are still in bed enjoying the start to their summer vacation. Members of the Barnyard Clovers 4-H club are not among the late risers. Almost every June...
For an organization that prides itself on science-based research, the Consumers Union and its widely read Consumer Reports and ShopSmart publications have gotten dairy wrong on a number of occasions over...
If robots are the next evolution of milking cows on a large scale, then the future is here already. Except it is happening slowly and not at all in the U.S. . . . yet
Reader Response: Milk isn't a generic label We as an industry should lobby for not allowing those products to be called milk. See June 23, 2014, Hoard's Dairyman Intel article, "Milk alternatives have...
by Corey Geiger, Managing Editor The Holstein Association USA will add a new fertility index and a feed efficiency rating to its Total Performance Index (TPI) formula, reported Jonathan Lamb, chairman...
Fort Atkinson's historic Hoard's Dairyman Farm was recognized by the American Guernsey Association for having 28 of the 100 top Guernseys nationally for milk and components production. The Association...
On Tuesday, June 24, a team of three American Guernsey Association personnel made a visit to the Hoard's Dairyman Farm to evaluate Rolling Prairie Bella Blue. The special trip occurred because Guernsey...
On Tuesday, June 24, a team of three American Guernsey Association personnel made a visit to the Hoard's Dairyman Farm to evaluate Rolling Prairie Bella Blue. The special trip occurred because Guernsey...
This is one busy week for the Hoard's Dairyman editorial team. It's all hands on deck to cover the latest in breed developments at this week's breed conventions and report on the details in our print...
Reader Response: The reason students are funding colleges I agree with much of Dean Doornink's comments on the article, "Students are bankrolling public colleges." Like Dean, I strongly believe in higher...
