What’s the best heat stress abatement practice? Standing? No. That’s not the correct answer, but if you watch a pen of cows that are experiencing heat stress, it sometimes appears to be their...

Disbudding or dehorning are very common practices in the U.S. dairy industry, for the safety of both animals and humans

By nature, cows are herd animals. This is true even of cows near lactation, but many cows on pasture will seek out solitude for the act of calving

How many cattle ranchers catch beef heifers and cows to breed them via artificial insemination (A.I.)?

Joe Sparrow placed the BROWN SWISS class in the 2019 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest

Lomeo placed the MILKING SHORTHORN class in the 2019 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest

I know, possibly more than most farmers, how annoying dealing with the general public can be

How do you define strength? Does it mean you squat 300 pounds and do 30 unbroken pull ups? Is strength being a dairy producer, waking every morning to face yet another day of hardships — but doing...

The first formal step has been taken to end California’s 49-year-old Class I milk pool quota system

The Ag Career Exploration (ACE) experience had a new look this year! With the help of a few more organizations, the ACE event took on the goal of preparing for the future by investing in today

It doesn't really feel like spring has truly arrived yet. Here in the Northwest, we just enjoyed one of the wettest weeks of weather in a long time while the Midwest and East dealt with yet another dose...

Mailbox milk prices for U.S. dairy farmers fell to the lowest levels in a decade with a $15.72 payout in 2018. That was down $1.59 from just one year earlier

Cows avoid lying on wet surfaces, disrupting their time budgets, behavior, and welfare

Spring means alfalfa scouting and corn planting. Gear up for another year

National Siblings Day happens to coincide with the passing of my brother, Pat. He was killed in a car accident on April 10, 1996, at the age 29

Harvard is at it again. Decades ago, elite professors lined up to endorse Ancel Keys’ fabricated notions involving the diet-heart hypothesis and lipid hypothesis. One claimed cholesterol consumption

2019 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest - Brown Swiss Class

2019 Hoard's Dairyman Cow Judging Contest - Milking Shorthorn Class

As humans, we all experience stress from time to time. I would bet nearly everyone utters the words, “I am so stressed out” now and then

Just about everyone in the dairy industry knows the biggest U.S. dairy states — California and Wisconsin. However, what about the smallest?