Dairy leaders thanked newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for recognizing the important role school milk plays in ensuring school-aged children get the nutrition they need.In one of his

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This past weekend I turned 30. That always seemed like such an adult number growing up, and now that it’s here, I’m wondering how it happened

It was Morrisville State College student Austin Graham’s first time showing a lamb, but “Miss Izzy” made it look easy for her. “It’s pretty physical work showing a lamb,...

Especially in cold weather states, it has been common for calf feeders to bump up fat levels in calf diets during the winter to account for added energy required by calves to maintain body temperature

Marin Western was recently selected as the Vita Plus dairy nutrition and management fellowship student at Michigan State University. Western will spend three semesters and a summer earning her m

A report on intellectual property issued Friday by the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) outlined the Trump Administration’s continuing commitment to curtailing the damaging abuses...

“Milk is only for breakfast,” answered one of my classmates as we lectured in a recent class about fluid milk consumption in the United States. Unfortunately, several other students agreed...

Adding to the groundswell of recognition that Canada’s protectionist dairy policies are harmful to U.S. dairy exports, a bipartisan group of 68 members of the House of Representatives wrote to Presi

Three processors in Minnesota have stepped up to accept milk from Minnesota farms whose milk buyer gave notice it would no longer take those farms’ milk after April 30. Since the farms received...

Undergraduate students – 230 in total – from 37 colleges across North America traveled to Visalia, California for the 16th annual Dairy Challenge® (NAIDC) held March 30 to April 1. Seven...

Sometimes the reactions I get when I tell people how often I go home on the weekends while attending college full time are surprising

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Sonny Perdue was sworn in as the 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by fellow Georgian and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Clarence Thomas in a brief ceremony today at the Supreme Court

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today joined President Trump for a “Farmers Roundtable” at the White House to address issues facing the American agriculture community, as the presiden

Areas of the country have been dumping milk for far too long. Now processors are dropping patrons

Rock River Laboratory announces the hiring of Megan Kelly as a Nutrition Analytic Consultant and Rock River Laboratory-Ohio manager. In her new position, Kelly will manage the day-to-day quality ana

Not too long ago, my siblings and I finalized our late parents’ estate. It has been a long journey from the time our mother passed away six years ago. Eighteen months later, we moved our dad o

You’ve heard it before: calves fed a higher plane of nutrition make more milk in the first lactation. But how does it happen?

Craig Uden, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, today praised the Senate confirmation of former Gov. Sonny Perdue to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture: “Decisions...