Starting today (Monday, July 1), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting applications for financial assistance from dairy producers who experienced milk losses due to highly pathogenic...

Milk production has been essentially flat for the past three years, and 2024 is on track for another year at the same level, if not less

Milk has long been a staple of healthy diets, but today’s consumers are looking for additional benefits then when they pick up their glass

Dairy farmers invest a considerable amount of money and effort in fans, sprinklers, shade, and other animal-cooling methods in order to avoid the reduced productivity and well-being that comes from heat...

Modern disc mowers are good at what they do

In USDA’s most recent Milk Production report, May milk output was 19.7 million pounds, down 0.9% from the same month a year before

During the summer months, cow cooling becomes fundamental to animal care

For dairy-beef crossbred animals to retain the value that dairy farmers benefit from, the backgrounders and feedlots that feed them out must know how to fit these animals into their systems and help them...

The high-protein dairy beverage market is experiencing significant growth due to greater consumer interest in health and wellness products

Demand for butter has been strong in the United States, and that clearly is the case around the world as well

Inflation affects our daily lives in all aspects, but do we understand its meaning and how it applies to agriculture?

In the 8th edition of Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as NASEM) put more emphasis on forage neutral detergent fiber (NDF)...

Pathogens that cause mastitis can be transferred via the environment or the milking process

As I watch the current marketing and other information on the modern world of cow cooling, I look back and smile at how we got here

If you have ever listened to radio broadcaster Paul Harvey’s “So God Made a Farmer” speech that was given at the 1978 National FFA convention, it’s easy to understand that farmers...

On dairy farms, efforts to improve feed efficiency often revolve around the lactating cows, but other groups within the herd can be an important part of the puzzle

No one wants to have cows limping through their barn, afflicted with lameness

It feels like highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is having a big impact on U.S. milk production and dairy prices, but the true effect still isn’t showing up in the actual supply and demand...

Classifieds: June 2024

DAIRY producers are aware of the importance of feeding quality colostrum within the first two hours of birth (and surely within six hours). Colostrum provides immunity as antibodies