During a Manitowoc County (Wisconsin) forage council meeting several years ago, I was invited to come out and talk about forage management strategies

It was July 23, 1999, when two college classmates and I boarded a plane to Madison, Wis. On this date, I began a journey that would change my life substantially

People and businesses around the world have goals about becoming more sustainable, but what sustainability means to each entity can be very different

When talking about sustainability in the dairy industry, conversations often involve what can be done on farms to manage manure, enhance crop and animal productivity, reduce emissions

In late September, Foremost Farms sent a letter to their patrons located in the Upper Midwest Federal Order explaining that there would be a 90-cent per hundredweight (cwt.) deduction from their milk

Will manure processing technology work on my farm?presented by Rebecca Larson, University of Wisconsin-Madisonsponsored by McLanahan The number of on-farm opportunities for manure proc

Today’s athletes have different goals than their counterparts from prior decades. Athletic goals in this era are attributable to new technologies, training techniques, advanced analytics, new strate

At times this fall, wholesale natural gas prices in Europe have spiked nearly 3,000% higher than they were in the fall of 2020

It might not seem like it in the midst of long days of chopping corn, filling bunkers and bags, and keeping the rest of the dairy running at the same time, but corn silage harvest season will wrap up

Embedded in the Class III and Class IV milk price formulas is the “make allowance.” It’s supposed to cover the cost of processing milk into bulk dairy products

America's ports are a portal to customers around the world. Since the onset of the pandemic, those ports have been receiving inbound goods

Recently, a reader who delved into my book Dairy Money Matters sent a thoughtful email on a number of questions related to both dairy farming and dairy processing

Assessing crops and planning creative ways to store silage are factors farmers are facing heading into the 2020 corn silage harvest

Negative producer price differentials (PPDs) reared its ugly head in June milk checks and will reappear in July

Dairy farmers are being financially squeezed by the COVID-19 vice. Just like being wedged in a vice in a farm shop . . . one jaw bearing down on dairy producers involves dumped milk because of lost sales...

Everyone has a different definition of what a farmer is. The worst I found came from dictionary.com, and it was, “an unsophisticated person from a rural area.”

As farmers get their choppers, trucks, and tractors ready to chop and store corn silage, there is one other thing they should plan out ahead of time this chopping season – testing your kernel processor

SilageSnap, a new app available this July for your mobile device, can provide dairy producers and custom operators an accurate method for checking the kernel processor roller settings during harvest

"We have a very detail-oriented nutritionist who monitors processing scores throughout the harvest. This year, the processing scores were in the upper 70s," explained James Coble. "That number is constantly...

Expansion at Southwest Cheese in Clovis is expected to take two years. Already one of the biggest single site cheese and whey protein powder processing plants in the world, a $140 million expansion of...