Official reasons for the Jersey Class in the 2017 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest. I place this class of Jerseys A-C-D-B. A comes to the top in a close placing over C. I give a slight advantage to...

I place this class of Ayrshires C-D-B-A. C rises to the top placing over D with her complete package of style, symmetry, and balance. This feminine individual is cleaner through her head, neck, and br

I place this class of Brown Swiss cows D-B-C-A. For me, D is the most structurally correct. She has the best fore udder and most correct teat placement. She also shows more balance of rear quarters th

In the last 11 years, the world dairy market has been hit by three major downturns and had two milk price booms. In early 2017, the latest world milk price crisis came to an end

The official placings, reasons, and scoring key for the Holstein Class in the 2017 Cow Judging Contest

I grew up on a dairy in Wisconsin before there were slow-moving signs on the hay wagon or fenders on the John Deere, and I am still alive

I would like to say that I agree with Anne Van Dijk’s “Reader Response: Canada restored its markets”

“We will focus on the three R’s to grow U.S dairy export sales,” said Tom Vilsack about his new role as president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council

April showers bring May flowers. Along with them have come planting delays and other farm level concerns. One benefit that some may not think of is the opportunity to analyze where rain runoff flows

Let’s face it, transition cows, or those cows facing the time period just before, during, and after calving, benefit from extra attention and care

I beg to differ with your article “U.S. farmers lose milk markets in Canada.”

In 2000, the first pair of milking robots, known to many as Automated Milking Systems (AMS), were installed on a commercial dairy farm and have been milking cows ever since

In the 40 years I have written about milk cows and dairies, I have never wanted to own either

While dairy producers from major exporting countries have long reduced milk flow, U.S. milk production kept chugging along growing 1.8 percent over the past year

Every day (or every other day), the milk truck rolls in, loads up our milk, and delivers the fruits of our labor to the processing plant

In the April 3 Hoard’s Dairyman Intel article, “Author says we’re addicted to dairy crack,” you cite a book by Dr. Neal Barnard of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine...

While the Hoard’s Dairyman Bull List will be available in the April 25 issue, we are making it available to readers here as well

Debate over the future cost of the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) has ramped up in recent weeks

Building on the good financials from just one year earlier, Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) posted its second consecutive year of record income. During the past fiscal year, the cooperative earned $132

In alfalfa fields, weeds are no more welcome than rain on freshly cut hay. Weeds compete for the same resources needed to grow a good crop of alfalfa: water, nutrients, and light