Just like your teenager who turns 16 and gets his or her driver's license, nitrogen in soil is mobile. Nitrogen (N) is known to move readily with water, especially with N applied as fertilizer or manure

Guidelines for selecting a silage hybrid Presented by Bill MahannaBrought to you by Pioneer In this webinar Bill Mahanna provided an overview of the main agronomic and nutritional factors to consider

A sobering blow has been delivered to extreme claims about animal agriculture and the environment by the new Global Agricultural Productivity Report (GAP) presented at the World Food Prize this month

As winter is just around the corner, planning for housing of pasture animals is likely already underway

The University of Idaho is partnering with the Idaho Dairymen’s Association and members of allied industry to build the nation’s largest and most advanced research dairy center

The electronic universe is aflutter after National Public Radio, known to many radio listeners simply as NPR, published the story “Most U.S. dairy cows are descended from just 2 bulls. That’s...

When Vice President Mike Pence visited Wisconsin last week, his message about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was very clear

As new technologies emerge, milking cows robotically continues to gain interest and adoption, but there’s a gap between research and farm level application

Most breeders have some sense that our current dairy cattle population has undergone a bottleneck due to intensive selection for yield and conformation

After peaking at 9.4 million head of dairy cows in January 2018, dairy cow numbers have slid by 120,000 head over the past 20 months

Cool weather and the first freeze occurred in many Northern states in the last few weeks

Milk and dairy foods are associated with many health benefits like reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease

Alfalfa — does this forage qualify as one of the crops that’s eligible for the $14.5 billion in direct payments from the Market Facilitation Program announced earlier this year by USDA’s...

Lameness can be a fairly ambiguous term on dairy farms, but we know that it is consistently one of the most prevalent interferences with healthy dairy production

We hear it over and over again, that fluid milk consumption is declining. This is true, but we should remember that milk remains a staple in most American households

"How much does the welfare of people affect the welfare of animals?" is a Hoard's Dairyman Webinar presented by Robert Hagevoort from New Mexico State University on October 14, 2019.

Every time a person sprays while cows are still in the parlor, bacteria are being pushed through the air and onto cows

There’s no doubt that inbreeding has been a topic heavy on dairy farmers’ minds as we’ve progressed through the genomic era

In mid-july, as families across the country endured a heat wave by cooling off while eating their favorite ice cream, a new choice hit the market . . . available only online for a staggering $20 a pint

I built a calf warmer from two water tanks that wouldn’t hold water anymore. I took one water tank and drilled holes in the sides to run steel piping through to create a floor base