Internships give students a chance to try their hand at a certain job, possibly solidifying what they want to do — or don’t want to do — after graduation

How does the saying go? Something like, “The worst sentence in the English language is ‘That’s the way we’ve always done it’”? Man, if that doesn’t sound like...

Whether it’s the order of crops and fields to harvest or simply getting machinery where it’s needed and loads timed out correctly, harvest is essentially a thoughtfully planned symphony in...

This back-to-school season, more students are meeting teachers who are prepared to accurately talk about the science behind dairy farming. That’s thanks to efforts led by dairy checkoff and agricultural...

As we walk through the barns and pastures to check our cows throughout the day, it pays to watch the cows’ expressions. In a time where people either tend to stare at their phones while going about...

Summer is coming to an end, and it’s time to go back to school. However, I won’t be going home empty-handed

Recently I saw a picture of a 4-H sign that read, “We don’t have kids to help raise our livestock. We have livestock to help raise our kids.”

County and state dairy promotion programs were created to help promote the nutritional benefits of milk and dairy products to consumers

New Zealand is home to about 5 million people and 5 million cows. That is half the number of cows that are in the United States, all on an island not quite the size of California

As most dairy farmers know, the previous milk check was quite disheartening

When I was old enough to participate in junior activities through breed associations, I was terrified to do them

Continuing education comes in many forms. Some students looking to pursue post-high school training in dairy production choose a technical college degree

Creating a cattle sale through a collegiate student organization is no easy task. This was my exact thought when some of my classmates wanted to start a dairy cattle sale at Virginia Tech

There is no doubt that dairy judging can be stressful

Stress is part of life, and in some ways, it can motivate us to do better and be better

It seems crazy how a four-legged animal can determine the direction of your life

I took a walk out to our calf hutches last week to begin summer preparations to that area of our farm

Let’s talk about first-calf heifers, or, as I like to call them, first-calf velociraptors

When I was growing up, it seemed as if we kept our stories to ourselves. Social media wasn’t a big deal when I was younger, so I didn’t really tell folks what all went on in my daily life

One of the best parts of going to a conference is, undoubtedly, perusing through the trade show