Having eyes on your parlor all the time doesn’t sound like a bad thing

Every week, one member of the Hillcrest Farms team will choose a quote to write on the whiteboard in our office for all to see. The quotes can range from Bible verses, inspirational quotes, or even just...

I am a husband, father, and a friend every day — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. No matter what I have or what I lose, I know exactly who I am and what my purpose is

The dairy industry continues to evolve and so does its potential talent pool of employees

As a mother to three children, I give advice pretty regularly. And lately, the dialogue has been talking about future careers

My daffodils are fully blooming in the yard and baseball practice starts today. Ready or not, it’s safe to say that spring has finally arrived

Attracting quality candidates for a job is a top complaint among those looking to hire employees

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national cooperative owned by family farmers, announced the companies participating in the 2019 DFA Accelerator program. These seven companies will engage in a

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted six offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture sales contracts for 575,407 pounds (261 metric tons) of Chedd

The National Milk Producers Federation today thanked key House and Senate dairy leaders for adding bipartisan momentum to implementing new, greatly needed dairy programs, a top priority for the

Last week, I officially shed the winter coat and put it away. I’m not talking away, away because I’ve now lived in Wisconsin long enough to understand that sometimes April will pretend to be...

Costs of re-treatments, milk loss and the spread of pathogens associated with mastitis relapse offer tremendous incentive to completely cure the disease. But too often, mastitis treatments end b

Each year, the Animal Agriculture Alliance releases reports from several major animal rights conferences to help keep our members and the broader industry informed

Today, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind introduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would require the Administration to create an exclusion process for current and future imports subject to Section 301 tarif

Over the last five years, Colorado has been the fastest growing dairy state in terms of milk production

When you are wondering what is going on in the world of dairy promotion, where do you go to find the latest information?

In the 1950s, the U.S. had 22 million dairy cows and the average milk production was 598 gallons per cow

We finally placed two robots in our new main robot barn this week. A little over two years ago at the Western Dairy Management Conference, I was sitting at a table talking to two dairymen from Wisconsin

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota announced the addition of new Committee staff members Wednesday. Dr. Melinda Cep joins the Committee as Legislative and Po

USDA’s release of the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report in February had mostly good news for U.S. dairy producers