Though feeding a dairy heifer makes up the largest single cost of raising it, that still can become a lower priority

Providing dairy workers with formal safety training is not typically an easy task. Workers are on tight schedules, training resources are scarce, and language barriers exist

This year has been stressful for just about everyone, and children are no exception. In fact, children are especially vulnerable to the harmful effects of stress and anxiety due to their developing brains...

For the same reason that many dairy economists are unwilling to put too much stock in predicting future milk prices, 2020 has left the industry with another lesson just as applicable to federal order pricing:...

While dry hay once dominated alfalfa production, certain parts of the country have come to rely more on alfalfa haylage over time

What am I most proud about in 2020? That was the question posed by Lucas Lentsch to dairy farm leaders of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), and USDEC

For years, people working with dairy cows have called the drop in calcium around calving milk fever. Ironically, milk fever, also known as hypocalcemia, does not cause a fever at all

We use this homemade bucket holder made from 1-inch PVC pipes on our dairy. The shorter PVC pipes coming out of the main pipe structure hold all sorts of things. On ours, we store buckets and bottles

To do the best job possible at growing heifers, farmers need to track growth, monitor body condition scores, and consider industry benchmarking

As the harvest season comes to an end, farms may find themselves with excess forage, the right amount of forage, or not enough forage to feed their herd in the year ahead

Conversations involving risk management and forward contracting often end up resulting in a discussion of “one time.”

Managing the why and not the people is the key differentiator between many businesses. Oftentimes, people have the opposite in place because it seems easier at first

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is a phrase we have all heard and can relate to

Roughly a quarter of U.S. milk was covered under Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) and about 13% was insured under Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) for 2020, said Tiffany LaMendola of Blimling and Associates

Stability, predictability, and adequacy — those are three things farmers require from dairy markets

The correct nutrients, at the right time, creates the right recipe for optimal growth. That’s the winning strategy to develop the rumen in dairy calves

This 2020 corn crop appears to be bucking the past two crop years' repeated trends for many issues

Before you start drafting hate mail, stay with me on this. Farmers, in general, are some of the best people I know

All across the country, stitched into the landscape between population centers, is where we find what people like to call “rural America.”

The dairy industry is in a much better financial position today than anyone would have thought back in late March when the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to create unprecedented effects across the country