In the past 12 months, the Consumer Price Index has shown an 8.5% price jump in all retail items. For food specifically, that number is higher at 8.8%

It’s basic human sense: when a needed item becomes scarce, we hold onto as much of it as we can for future security. That was true at the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns, and on farms

A farming legacy is honorable and desirable but not without challenges

Official placings for the 2022 Hoard's Dairyman Guernsey class

The new, official U.S. genetic evaluations will be arriving one week later than expected. This change unfolded after the April 5 release of genetic data

In recent years, for better or worse, milk prices in the U.S. are determined increasingly by forces at play in other parts of the world

Three times a year, genetic evaluations are calculated for all the dairy animals in the U.S. database

Will global dairy demand outpace growth over the next decade? Dairy economist Mary Ledman predicts that it will

Getting calves off to a good start includes a nutritional program that encourages weight gain at a young age. “I want calves gaining weight by the second week of life,” said Bob James

While there is often pushback that ruminants are utilizing land that could otherwise be used for edible food production for humans, cattle deliver value

U.S. milk production came in right at forecast for February, down 1% from last year. We’re often asked to interpret these reports as bullish or bearish, and this one is a tough call

I just wanted to say thanks for bringing out articles like the one on planting green and soil health that ran in the March 10 Hoard’s Dairyman Intel. We have practiced this for five years now and...

Climbing prices on both sides of the food system show us how much our farms depend on others here and abroad

“GREAT NEWS!!!”That was the lead statement from Peggy Holoubek Hainy on Monday, March 14, who just days earlier made a public plea on Facebook

Entries from the Hoard’s Dairyman Farm Creamery did well at the world’s largest dairy products contest

We are at the end of the winter, and soon it will be time to start harvesting winter grass forages for silage. Recently, I have been asked whether grass and legume mixtures ensile well

Planting a grain crop like corn or soybeans into a growing cover crop is a practice that is gaining popularity. For dairy and crop farmer Tony Peirick, “planting green” is a concept

“We told dairy farmers for five to seven years that fat was valuable,” said Phil Plourd, president of Blimling and Associates

Celebrate the role dairy plays in childhood nutrition during National School Breakfast Week

It’s a piece of the milk price cycle we have become accustomed to. When milk prices go up, milk production follows