Producers and ag service providers currently operating 2014-2018 model year John Deere 4-Series Sprayers can now gain greater accuracy and control of spray applications by installing ExactApply

So here is saluting you, Robert Morris Davidson, a man who I am blessed and honored to call both my father and my life coach. Today, we celebrate you by moving heifers as a family unit and coming inside...

A couple years ago, after we realized that the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) wasn’t going to offer us any meaningful protection, we created our own self-funded insura

Dr. Jenn Rowntree has recently joined Vita Plus as a calf and heifer specialist. Rowntree will provide on-farm support for sales staff within our market area for all calf- and heifer-related s

There were 110 people in attendance at the Peninsula Pride Farms annual meeting last month in Luxemburg, Wis

If there’s a better place to take the pulse of Western dairying at the beginning of each year than World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., after 40-plus years, I haven’t found it yet

This is the 25th year that the National Mastitis Council’s National Dairy Quality Awards program has been recognizing the very best milk quality producing herds in the United States

We had a problem with our cows’ tails falling into our manure pan in the parlor, especially in the summer months when it’s warm and flies are present. Looking for a solution, I cut the botto

An “honest athlete” is how Scott and Pam Pralle described their prized registered Holstein cow, Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918. As a 5-year-old, 3918 broke the national record for milk

The 2018 Nasco Showing & Grooming catalog, featuring carefully selected products for showing and grooming livestock, is available from Nasco in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.Nasco’s 84-page Sho

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently celebrated the opening of its new office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The of

The annual cow judging contest has commenced. Have your entries in by Thursday, March 22, 2018

John Deere announces it has received the American Farm Bureau Ag Data Transparent (ADT) certification, which verifies to producers that a technology provider or product is in compliance with s

SCR is pleased to announce today that Kelsey DeBoer has joined their team as a technology implementation specialist. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Kelsey will provide monitoring implementa

You never know when you will have a chance to spread dairy’s positive message. We need to let the consumer meet their farmer

The National Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) Scholarship Committee selected two college of veterinary medicine students – Sara Davis, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary

Hailey Pipher from Chemung County was crowned the 2018-2019 New York State Dairy Princess on February 20th at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool, New York. Having served as the Chemung County

Minnesota Milk Producers Association named Minnesota State Senator Torrey Westrom of Elbow Lake as its 2017 Legislator of the Year during the organization’s annual Dairy Conference and Expo No

There’s no shame in taking a mental health day to get away from the daily stress of dairying

Nina Teicholz presented the Hoard's Dairyman webinar, "Animal fats: separating fact from fiction."