Possibly the biggest thief of resting time for dairy cows is waiting to be milked

Building on the storyline established in On a Wisconsin Family Farm, 34 more narrative non-fiction short stories explore a family’s farm succession and story as a rural community

Talking about sustainable advancements in agriculture can feel like trying to hit a moving target, especially with so many entities involved along the supply chain from farmers to consumers

Automated milking systems are a substantial investment, but in return, many benefits can be gained from this style of dairy herd management

As we move fully into spring, it is time to have our butterfat-risk toolkit out and ready for deployment

Four U.S. senators and four U.S. representatives have stepped forward to introduce the SAVE Act that would amend the Agriculture Trade Act of 1978

I had a lot of flies in the barn during the summer months, so I had an electrician install night lights next to the exhaust fans

While dairy product sales have steadily grown over the past several decades, fluid milk consumption has dropped repeatedly

Food is the most basic of human needs, and for generations, farmers have filled that need for nourishment

Benefits of robotic milking systems often include lower labor needs, calmer cows, and greater milking frequency and yield

I used to have a poster in my office that said, “Everything I learned, I learned from a cow.”

Dairy farmers’ cost to haul milk within the Upper Midwest jumped 21% when comparing May 2021 to May 2022

“Technology is coming for us, whether we like it or not,” said Steph Plaster, a University of Wisconsin Division of Extension farm management outreach specialist, during a “Setting your...

Just get her bred back – that is the name of the game

It doesn’t take much online searching these days to find someone or something proclaiming that our food system is “broken” and drastic changes are needed to fix it

The march to milk-pricing modernization reached another milestone this month, as the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) submitted to USDA our comprehensive proposal for Federal Milk Marketing Order...

About the same time the new farm bill will be kicking in this October, the federal government’s new fiscal year also will be underway

During my time working as a county-based extension educator, one of the questions I was asked most often was the going rate for custom work

Managing for success with robotic milking systemsPresented by Trevor DeVries, University of GuelphSponsored by GalaxyThe use of automated (robotic) milking systems (AMS) brings several opportunities w

The title of this article may provoke the response: Why in this day and age would a dairy farmer ever consider grazing?