Several days ago, a dairy owner friend asked a question that stumped me: “Why are milk futures prices so high?”

4-6 365 27,987 5.1 1,432 3.9 1,081

6-2 349 28,271 4.0 1,130 3.3 924

4-8 333 24,800 4.4 1100 3.1 759

6-3 365 27,815 5.4 1507 3.5 977

A common trait among successful farm business managers is the desire to improve their business management skills, and in turn, their farm

Teenagers are opening their wallets and spending more money on food. A survey conducted by investment banking firm Piper Jaffray this spring found that food was the largest spending category for teenagers

Although nutritionists have a good feel for where many of the ingredients fit into a healthy dairy ration, USDA’s Mary Beth Hall said we still have much to learn when it comes to sugar in rations

Resilient. The word accurately describes dairy producers across the country as they contend with the never-ending fluctuations of milk prices and weather challenges

Pasteurization — the process of heating a liquid, in this case milk, to kill bacteria — works. There are centuries of science to back up that notion

At the simplest level, the dairy herd is the production unit for milk. Individual cows produce the milk, but about a third of cows in a herd are replaced annually

I wish my mother and my father were alive so they could tell me it would all be okay. But they are not. And all I’m left with is my faith. And, honestly, that is enough

Even though many of our farms have been in our communities for generations, that doesn’t mean we can have a “we were here first” attitude. Quite to the contrary, neighbor relations should...

While approximately 90 percent of current freestall housing relies upon natural ventilation, there is a growing number of new facilities using a wide range of systems from tunnel to cross ventilation

Ask a farmer to help promote dairy products, and for many, providing chocolate milk to a school tour, scooping ice cream at a carnival, or bringing a calf to a petting zoo is right up their alle

To provide water access in our pasture, we mounted an old cast iron bathtub on skids fitted with a MiraFount valve. Water is supplied by a 1-inch buried line, and the tub is moved through the pasture

Over the last century, tractors have become a valuable and necessary piece of equipment on nearly all dairy farms. These tractors are used for many tasks, from mixing and delivering feed to planting a

Now entering its third year, the process to establish a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) potentially cleared another hurdle

We often hear about the sheer volume — in billions of pounds — and the economic value of the food that is wasted in the United States each year

Tragically there have been two deaths on Idaho dairies this year involving dairy lagoons. Looking at the past four years, there have been 14 deaths on Idaho agriculture operations