No bending. No squatting. No heavy lifting

A typical stroll down the grocery store aisle exposes the shopper to almost 40,000 different products

Growing up on my family’s dairy farm, more than once I had the opportunity to give a slippery, wet newborn calf its very first meal

Caitlin and I have been writing our “Daddy and Daughter Dairy Together” blogs for Hoard’s for a while now

The first rule of the Margin Protection Program for Dairy or MPP-Dairy is that you cannot count on it to save you

This past week we had the privilege of hosting 80 middle school students to our farm for a tour

“There’s a new calf killer in town” was the title of the April 2018 Hoard’s Dairyman webinar

Earlier this week, I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Agriculture Future of America (AFA) Animal Institute

Oh Jordy! You have captured the hearts of us all, even though you (unsuccessfully) try to take on our beloved barn cat, Shakira

I don’t actually know how to fix the dairy industry. I know that it will be a multistep process

Employee turnover is top of mind for many farmers as labor continues to be a hot topic in the dairy industry

Instagram is a great platform to use to connect directly with consumers

I awoke with a feeling of anticipation mixed with distress. As a girl of 4 years old, taking naps was simply a necessity, but I was not about to sleep through the most exciting part of my day

People have the perspective that dairy farmers have no life. That they work sunup to sundown, and that they eat, sleep, and breathe farming

California, Oregon, and Idaho have set their state maximum somatic cell count standards at 500,000 or less, well below than the national level of 750,000

At a recent meeting, I got into a great discussion with some industry members, both producers and supporters, about gene editing

Advancements such as robotics, sexed semen, and RFID tags all enhance the efficiency of daily work on the dairy farm.

The snow is melting, and warm temperatures are on the way. Out here on the West Coast, we are enjoying weather in the 80s already this week!

Snow, and sometimes an abundance of it, makes us long for the next season

If you’re on social media, hopefully by now you’ve seen what we hope will be the next big thing to sweep the dairy industry. Let me start from the beginning