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June 30 2025
Minimizing the effect of mycotoxin-contaminated silage on dairy cattle can sometimes feel like playing a game of whack-a-mole
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June 27 2025
In August of 2024, I decided it was time to share my passion for the dairy industry with the kids and parents in my community
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June 26 2025
Dairy is the largest aisle in the grocery store and sold $77.8 billion worth of products last year, according to Circana sales data
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June 11 2025
What’s delicious, nutritious, and sustainably produced? U.S. dairy. The topic of responsible and sustainable animal agriculture has garnered significant attention in recent years, but these concepts...
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June 10 2025
While pair-housing calves has many benefits, it also brings some disease risks. Researchers suggest pairing early in life to capture all the upsides of pair housing
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June 9 2025
Roughly two months into the 2025 growing season and fresh off a few days of working with colleagues and dairy producers in western New York, Mother Nature has already forced in-season adjustments for many...
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June 9 2025
This year marks a major milestone for the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF) National Young Cooperators (YC) Program as it celebrates its 75th anniversary
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May 26 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of gene-edited technology that results in a pig resistant to the costly porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)
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May 15 2025
Today’s podcast is called Giving Calves the Best Start. This episode will help you recognize small issues with calves before they become big problems
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May 8 2025
Although the seasons run opposite down under, Australian dairy farmers are no strangers to heat stress
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May 8 2025
While pair-housing calves has many benefits, it also brings some disease risks. Researchers suggest pairing early in life to capture all the upsides of pair housing
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May 1 2025
During the Hoard’s Dairyman April webinar, speaker Jimena Laporta offered data and analysis of recent and continuing studies on the lingering — and multigenerational — impact of heat...
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April 14 2025
Beyond summer heat stress: Understanding impacts on dairy cattle across generationsPresented by Jimena Laporta, University of Wisconsin-MadisonxxxThis presentation will explore how environmental stres
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April 10 2025
The U.S. dairy market is awash in cream
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April 8 2025
Genetic improvements within the U.S. dairy herd are fueling historic gains in key milk components needed to produce cheese, butter and a variety of other popular dairy foods
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March 31 2025
This book covers dairy cattle feeding and nutrition and is authored by Mike Hutjens
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March 28 2025
When raising kids on the farm, some tasks are too dangerous or difficult to accomplish with kiddos in tow. Having their grandparents to tag along or play with is a blessing for many farm families
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March 27 2025
“No one can be you the way that you can be you,” said Carla Harris during her keynote speech at the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) conference in January
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March 13 2025
The interest in dairy farms producing a portion of their own grains has varied over time. In my work, I have observed an upswing in interest in recent years
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March 7 2025
Life after graduation can be confusing. Remember, you don’t always have to have it all figured out