Last week, the cattle trailer came home from state fair for the very last time as the Griswold family completed their final 4-H event

In the passing of Maurice “Maury” Core and “William “Bill” Ahlem, the Jersey family lost two of its great leaders

The last two weeks have been pretty emotional for me. The video “Dear Struggling Farmer” wasn’t easy to share

As dairy producers, industry members, and associates, we all know about the benefits of milk

Remember when everyone used to tell you that having a farm blog was a priority — before social media was all the rage? Are farm websites and blogs worth the time to build today?

Summer is coming to an end and another editorial intern is checking out of the office. It has been a pretty incredible summer

The school bell rang last week and my kids went back to school. Truthfully, it will be an adjusting period for our entire household, as we have three children in three different schools — freshman,...

For the second year in a row, Hoard’s Dairyman has captured the top three webinar awards from the American Agricultural Editor’s Association (AAEA)

Our staff is like our family. They might not be related to us by blood, but we respect and care about them like we would our own

It is no secret that the politics in California are a joke. For decades, California’s politics have haunted the agricultural community, but over the past few years we have been able to watch its...

At the American Guernsey Association’s national convention held in June, outstanding cows and herds received awards for their achievements from the previous year

It’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that what we’re doing right now in the dairy industry isn’t working. If it were, family farms wouldn’t be selling out at such an alarming...

How many risk management meetings have you been to in the last two years? I must've attended at least three or four and been invited to over a dozen

Before I state anything else, let me be clear; this is not a post about small farms versus large farms

“It’s a game changer,” shared Ev Thomas of Oak Point Agronomics during the Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, when talking about forage advancements in alfalfa production

If you haven’t heard the expression, “It's hotter than Georgia asphalt," then you should take a trip to Georgia in the summer and walk across the asphalt without any shoes on

A cow is a cow. She will always be a cow. She will never crow like a rooster, oink like a pig, or waddle like a duck

Growing up I always enjoyed the time spent off the farm when my siblings and I would go to local and national dairy shows

Last night Hoard’s Dairyman had the unique opportunity to host attendees from the International Conference of the World Jersey Cattle Bureau at the Hoard’s Dairyman Farm

“The 1960’s Holsteins here are basically a herd frozen in time,” said Brad Heins, an associate professor and manager of the University of Minnesota’s Organic Dairy Research and...