In the last 11 years, the world dairy market has been hit by three major downturns and had two milk price booms. In early 2017, the latest world milk price crisis came to an end

Not too long ago, my siblings and I finalized our late parents’ estate. It has been a long journey from the time our mother passed away six years ago. Eighteen months later, we moved our dad o

The official placings, reasons, and scoring key for the Holstein Class in the 2017 Cow Judging Contest

You’ve heard it before: calves fed a higher plane of nutrition make more milk in the first lactation. But how does it happen?

At times, feed and forage analyses combined with an advanced nutrition model diet or ration formulation provide the means to improve herd health, performance, and profitability

What will U.S. dairy farming be like in a half century? That was the focus of a topic I presented at the Tucker Endowed Lecture at Michigan State University this past March

I grew up on a dairy in Wisconsin before there were slow-moving signs on the hay wagon or fenders on the John Deere, and I am still alive

I would like to say that I agree with Anne Van Dijk’s “Reader Response: Canada restored its markets”

“We will focus on the three R’s to grow U.S dairy export sales,” said Tom Vilsack about his new role as president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council

April showers bring May flowers. Along with them have come planting delays and other farm level concerns. One benefit that some may not think of is the opportunity to analyze where rain runoff flows

Let’s face it, transition cows, or those cows facing the time period just before, during, and after calving, benefit from extra attention and care

The nightmare continues for some Wisconsin and Minnesota dairy farmers as they scramble to find a new processor for their milk by May 1

“Since we started focusing on Fuel Up To Play 60 and school breakfast, milk consumption grew 830 million pounds,” Tom Gallagher, CEO for Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), told those attending the...

I beg to differ with your article “U.S. farmers lose milk markets in Canada.”

In 2000, the first pair of milking robots, known to many as Automated Milking Systems (AMS), were installed on a commercial dairy farm and have been milking cows ever since

If you have taken a close look at the Jerseys included on the Hoard’s Dairyman Bull List following the past few sire summaries, you may have noticed a change

The title of a recent Politico article read, “Your farm is trying to kill you.” Its subtitle shed further light on where this story was headed

In the 40 years I have written about milk cows and dairies, I have never wanted to own either

While dairy producers from major exporting countries have long reduced milk flow, U.S. milk production kept chugging along growing 1.8 percent over the past year

There are certain times of year when we use a lot of hoses, and we used to struggle with how to store them when not in use