Throughout the Dairy Cattle Welfare Symposium held in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, there was an overarching theme that wrapped through the majority of presentations
Separating and bedding with clean sand is the theme of the 2012 McLanahan Sand Solutions Conference to be held 14-15 November in Madison, Wisconsin. If you are going to separate and bed with sand, the...
Selective Dairy Breeding Could Help Prevent Lameness, Boost Productivity Dairies could increase their efficiency, reduce their carbon footprints and improve the health of their herds if they considered...
Are you fed up yet with undercover videos that show cows being mistreated? Are you sick and tired yet of how it makes you feel to see the dairy industry's image trashed? Are you scared yet that the public's...
Revamped Website to be Followed with New Product Descriptors As part of its efforts to revitalize one of the most recognized product symbols in the food industry, the National Milk Producers Federation...
A sea of blue corduroy will flood Indianapolis, Ind., in the next few days. High school agricultural students will descend on the 85th annual National FFA Convention on October 24 to October 27, 2012....
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced today that the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, also known as the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), will enter into force on Oct. 31, 2012....
Just as in baseball, the best teams in dairy production track and use statistics to ensure their success. The best compilation of dairy statistics is now available in the latest edition of the National...
Action, Not Just Words, Is What Dairy Families Need Right Now Today, Milk Producers Council's General Manager Rob Vandenheuvel put out the following comments in response to a "Statement on Milk Pricing"...
Adisseo recently announced plans to build a new plant for the production of Smartamine® M, the rumen-protected methionine for dairy cows. The plant will be located in Commentry, France. The new plant...
We all know that dairy provides food and nutrition to millions each day in the form of milk, cheese, ice cream and yogurt. When a milk cow is finished producing milk, she is a great resource for more products....
NorthStar Cooperative announced that it is among the first DHI service providers to begin offering a milk pregnancy test that can be run on DHI samples. The ELISA test uses pregnancy associated glycoproteins...
Michigan Dairy Youth Program earns sixth invitation to Europe in nine years Savanna Katulski, Hayleigh Geurink, coach Joe Domecq, coach Sarah Black, Megan Bush and Megan Filhart Michigan is home to the...
Experts appointed to judges' panel for U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards Diverse panel includes leaders in dairy, agriculture and environment The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy®, established under...
The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA) have launched the Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability (SFIS) project...
Launched in 2002, the idea behind the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge was to allow students to incorporate the knowledge they had gained in all aspects of dairy management into one competition
The actions depicted on the Mercy for Animals video are appalling and completely unacceptable. Dairy farmers in Idaho are as outraged by this video as the public. This incident does not reflect the animal...
When was chocolate milk invented? Which state had the fewest dairy farms in 2010? These questions and more were asked on our first episode of "Are you smarter than a Hoard's Dairyman editor?"
