When Chad Abbas, herdsman at Van Voorst Dairy, set out to improve reproductive efficiency a few years ago, he found the answer by combining targeted estrus synchronization with SenseHub® Dairy cow...

With the year’s end upon us, it’s time to gather your records and evaluate your tax situation

A feed and forage outlook for the year aheadPresented by Mike Rankin, Hay & Forage Grower and Mike Hutjens, University of IllinoisSponsored by QLFxxxThe ramifications of a challenging crop year in

South American milk production had a difficult start to 2024, but brighter days are on the horizon

With only two and a half months left in the year, many dairy producers are preparing to look at their year-end financials and make a gameplan for next year

Judge Keving Doeberenier of West Salem, Ohio, and his associate judge Adam Hodgins of Kincardine, Ontario, sorted through many impressive classes Wednesday and Thursday as they chose their Grand Champion

Stoney Point Joel Bailey, the winning Six-Year-Old and Older cow owned by Vierra Dairy Farms of Hilmar, Calif., hit the winning jackpot this year as she won Grand Champion of the International Jersey Show...

2025 Hoard’s Dairyman calendar

My niece’s wish was to work in an ice cream shop one day, the county fair helped make this wish come true!

Making the most of this year's corn silage was presented by Presented by: John Goeser, Rock River Laboratory/Cows Agree Consulting

Hay and haylage crops are under plastic or in storage

I am grateful for my experience serving as the District 4 Dairy Princess

Vegan and animal rights activists are pushing for “plant-based” menus in a growing number of schools

Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wis., presented its Hoard’s Dairyman Award to recent graduate Erik Walters

Artificial intelligence isn’t new, but the introduction of ChatGPT to the masses in November 2022 propelled the conversation to a whole new level. In agriculture, discussions abound on how data and...

February was a big month for USDA data releases

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...

Currently, USDA rules for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs only allow schools to offer low-fat (skim and 1%) varieties of milk to students

When you compete at this level, you will find geniuses that you didn’t know existed

As 2023 draws to a close, the global dairy market continues to walk a tightrope of limited new milk and sluggish demand