Dairy heifers weighing over 500 pounds — a proxy for the number of dairy replacements expected to enter the U.S. milking herd over the next year — have fallen almost 15% during the past six...

June 12, 2023: a day of glory. Or, if you’re like me — an educator trying to make numbers and literature somehow more appealing than a mysterious purple ice cream treat — a day of horror

Most good cow people will tell you that a comfortable cow will rest in a lying position 14 to 16 hours per day

Trusting your workforce to complete their jobs accurately is the foundational need of any business. But for employees to know what needs to be done and how to do it, they need effective training

After a dozen weeks of testimony and cross-examination spread over six months, the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) public hearing concluded on Tuesday, January 30

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is excited to announce that our new educational video game called “Mooving Cows” is now publicly available to download and play

The author is a freelance writer based in Rockford, Ill.Health resolutions for the new year encompass more than simply losing weight

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

Great forages are the foundation for precision feed management, said Joe Lawrence during a Cornell Cooperative Extension webinar

Current and potential dairy consumers live all around the world, providing the U.S. dairy industry a tremendous opportunity for growth

We communicate with people all day long. However, if we want to have influence with people and lead them, our communication must look different than what we use in other settings

In a few weeks, winter annual grasses or small grain grasses will accelerate their growth, and the harvest of small grain grasses for silage will begin

The next time you walk through the barn, try to take notice of that one “gold star” cow that just always seems to do what it’s supposed to

Cheese sales, across the board, are substantial and continuing on a long trend of positive growth. On the other hand, fluid milk sales fell off the table in 2010 and show scant signs of recovery

Classifieds: January 25, 2024

Ideally, you should only purchase as much silage inoculant as you can use in the current crop season

There are many tools and practices a dairy farm can lean on to ensure the herd gets what it needs from the ration

Currently, USDA rules for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs only allow schools to offer low-fat (skim and 1%) varieties of milk to students

In his opening address, president and CEO Michael Dykes shared a handful of ways we can elevate the dairy industry, and one of them was to reignite our competitive fire

My hydraulics quick attach kept getting pinned between the grapples and spears on my loader, so I made a bracket with three holes that match the pins on the quick attach