Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the January 25, 2022 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Despite all the challenges the pandemic brought to 2020 and 2021, overall farm income ended up looking better than one might expect

Inflated fertilizer prices are just one of the exacerbated input costs farmers are dealing with as we enter a new year and season

People aged 85 and older are projected to more than double to 14.4 million by 2040, according to the U.S. Census

Futures markets continued to move higher with mounting evidence that milk output among the major dairy exporters continues to slow

The dairy price outlook for 2022: A spotlight on supply, demand, and inflation was presented by Mark Stephenson

“High milk prices won’t look as good as they have in the past, as rising costs and difficulties in processing and marketing continue through the new year,” shared Roger Cryan

Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs) have come under scrutiny over the last few years. Many folks are critics of the current program, which implements minimum prices for regulated milk

Starbucks, the world’s largest coffeehouse chain, set ambitious 2030 targets to reduce its water and carbon footprints by half

Results are in from a survey the National Dairy Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program distributed last fall

Anaerobic digesters have become a useful tool for some dairy farms to not only manage their manure and environmental impact

Most forecasts focus on when. When will the supply chain bottlenecks be resolved? When will inflation subside? When will barrel cheese prices catch up with blocks?

Is it an overstatement to say that the U.S. dairy industry is experiencing a “paradigm shift” in its approach to milk production? Probably

Just as the rising input costs of inflation are making food production more difficult for farmers, consumers are also continuing to see rising prices as they fill their grocery carts

A new year may bring new rental agreements. For farmers leasing pasture, extension educators Bill Halfman and Carolyn Ihde offered the following advice

Brewers grains and distillers grains are two examples of waste products humans would need to dispose of that cows can transform into nutrient-dense milk and meat

On May 25, 2021, dairy products became the first commodity placed before the dispute resolution panel in the newly established U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

deciding when and how a dairy cow departs the farm is different on every operation

“The most profitable parts of the U.S. in 2022 could be the Northwest and Northeast, but smaller farms in those regions won’t participate in the success,” predicted Aidan Connolly, president...

Supply chain woes affected people across the country last year, from producers to consumers. Some of the hardest hit were farmers in California