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Checkoff-led research indicates consumers are increasingly seeking ways to ease anxiety, including food-based options
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Feb. 15 2024
FARM employment has changed a lot over the years. In the past, farmers may have worked alongside their family and one or two farmhands. Now, dairies might have dozens of employees
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Feb. 15 2024
Surely, our grandparents could not have envisioned a day when cow burps are regarded as culprits in global warming and nut-based beverages are viewed as sustainable alternatives to milk
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Feb. 15 2024
Every five years, the Census of Agriculture is conducted, giving us an overview of farming in the United States
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Feb. 8 2024
We’ve had to try a new approach for bedding our cows’ pack barn
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Feb. 8 2024
Last year was one that will stick out in dairy producers’ minds, but not in a positive way in terms of milk prices and income over feed costs
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Feb. 8 2024
Dairy heifers weighing over 500 pounds — a proxy for the number of dairy replacements expected to enter the U.S. milking herd over the next year — have fallen almost 15% during the past six...
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Feb. 5 2024
After a dozen weeks of testimony and cross-examination spread over six months, the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) public hearing concluded on Tuesday, January 30
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Feb. 1 2024
The author is a freelance writer based in Rockford, Ill.Health resolutions for the new year encompass more than simply losing weight
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Feb. 1 2024
People and businesses around the world have goals about becoming more sustainable, but what sustainability means to each entity can be very different
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Feb. 1 2024
Great forages are the foundation for precision feed management, said Joe Lawrence during a Cornell Cooperative Extension webinar
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Jan. 29 2024
We communicate with people all day long. However, if we want to have influence with people and lead them, our communication must look different than what we use in other settings
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Jan. 25 2024
In his opening address, president and CEO Michael Dykes shared a handful of ways we can elevate the dairy industry, and one of them was to reignite our competitive fire
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Jan. 23 2024
The first thing you notice is that the parlor and building are spotless. It was built five years ago, and I first visited just as they swapped the old herringbone parlor for the rotary
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Jan. 23 2024
In 2022, I was diagnosed with a disease called chronic Q fever, which is caused by the organism Coxiella burnetii
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Jan. 22 2024
Winter has now made its fierce arrival in much of the country. Along with bringing bitter cold, many crop fields are blanketed with snow that will likely stick around for a while
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Jan. 15 2024
Having a plan or strategy for your business is instrumental in achieving future success
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Jan. 15 2024
There is no question which ration on a dairy receives the least attention. Often overlooked is the diet for the far off dry cows
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Jan. 10 2024
Forage management and feed hygiene are back to being front and center
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Jan. 10 2024
One nondairy “milk” option is having a disappointing start to the new year. Coconut milk has been removed from menus at Dunkin’ locations nationwide