A great superhero needs a great super villain. To be candid, I’ve never had a more difficult time trying to think about the outcome of an upcoming year’s milk price battle as I have at this...

If at all possible, dairy personnel putting up corn silage this fall should aim to store like forages with like forages

When humans are hot or uncomfortable, they tend to want a little more personal space. For some reason, cows have the opposite reaction, which leads to a problem called bunching

Despite a dismal corn planting season for the majority of the country, dairy producers could breathe a bit easier about previously projected shortages raising feed prices

Many dairy producers who enrolled in the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program have already received checks for the first part of the year

This year’s forage production, particularly the alfalfa crop, has been scarred by 2019’s volatile weather

This July, U.S. dairy farmers collectively sent 256,800 dairy cows to packing plants

When it comes to the breakfast table, beverage milk and breakfast cereal have been long hitched together as complementary food items

Milking robots offer a number of advantages. An automatic milking system (AMS) tends to boost production, reduce labor, and provide valuable data to help with day-to-day herd management

“Did you check the tanks?” “Yes.” “Did you check the temperature charts?” “Yes.”

Dairy farms are subject to many types of risk including market and price, production, human resource management, environmental, and policy

At the beginning of my fall semester in 2018, my only concerns were keeping up with classes and dairy judging

Ah, fair week. As a farm kid, fair week has always been one of my favorite weeks of the year

One of my goals in writing these blogs is to bridge a gap that I have perceived between the farming side of dairy and the processing side

Rabobank is out with its Global Dairy Top 20 and America’s highest ranking dairy company with headquarters in the United States — Dairy Farmers of America — slid from fourth to sixth...

This year has brought another summer of interesting weather conditions for alfalfa growers

When it first debuted in the states nearly two decades ago, robotic milking came with a steep learning curve

The forthcoming crisp fall air will also welcome in the continuation of the tanbark trail and the beginning of dairy judging contests

Let me tell you a story you may have not heard before. Many moons ago, there was but a few drinks to pick from on store shelves

World Dairy Expo 2019 is just around the corner and soon attendees and exhibitors will be collecting ‘Tools for Dairy’s Progress’ during the annual event