Today’s major health concern is COVID-19. While the pandemic should eventually pass due to a robust vaccination effort, there is a different health problem escalating in teenage girls that could...

Holstein steers have become a solid contributor to the nation’s beef supply

Throughout the decades of milk pricing by Federal Milk Marketing Orders, dairy farmers, processors, and even consumers have questioned the importance of the orders

As we have seen before, the intricacies of the Federal Milk Marketing Order system mean that any changes to the orders will result in multifaceted consequences

However, why we have federal programs to subsidize food consumption is not always clear, especially when we contrast the perspectives of people whose primary interest is agriculture versus people whose...

For only the 18th time in its 84-year history, the Klussendorf Association voted to extend honorary membership to an individual who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to improve the purebred d

Moving through the spring flush, dairy markets have climbed with a focus on the anticipation of widespread reopening of food service and the broader service sector

Corn for silage will be planted soon, if not already, and harvested during the summer

Just as in human medicine, antibiotics can serve as a useful treatment tool when a dairy animal becomes sick

On Tony Brubaker’s Pennsylvania dairy farm, they began dry matter intake tracking 15 years ago

This August’s genetic evaluations will feature an updated Net Merit (NM$) index

More than a year ago, the global health pandemic put many aspects of life on pause. Farmers faced their share of disruptions and challenges, but the daily work had to be done

Just like dairy farmers and dairy retailers, dairy product processors have been forced to learn a lot over the past 13 months as they attempt to balance supply and demand

In so many businesses, COVID-19 has caused a fundamental change in the way sales are done

While the pandemic and its effects are by no means behind the United States, recent vaccine availability and slipping COVID-19 infection rates have caused many parts of the country to walk back policies...

The demand for dairy continues, but transportation remains rocky. That’s according to Phil Plourd, president of Blimling and Associates, in an April 14 webinar, “Bumpy Roads, Choppy Waters:...

The USDA launched the Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) program in the fourth quarter of 2018

The dairy supply chain was able to keep operating as best it could last spring thanks in no small part to the employees working at dairy processing plants

The season for harvesting small grain silage is fast approaching. In some parts of the U.S., small grain silage may already be fermenting in the storage structure

I came up with an idea to unroll three rolls of barbed wire at once to build a fence. I took a piece of metal long enough to fit three rolls of wire