Last week, I had a very early morning flight from the West Coast to the Midwest. I would be on the flight for four hours followed by an immediate three and a half hour shuttle ride

Every dairy farmer is striving for the same thing: the prefect cow. She milks better than any other cow and her components are 5 percent fat and 4 percent protein. She’s obviously pretty

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

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

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

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

What will dairy look like in the future? It was that question that spurred dairy consultant Jack Britt to collaborate with a team of experts to examine dairying in the future

I often have talked about stubborn farmers who make less than desirable patients. My late father never sought medical care

One Christmas I asked for and received a Rubik’s cube – the three-dimensional puzzle

Each spring baseball players and prospects display their skills in the hopes of making a major league roster

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

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

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."

It has been bitterly cold here in East Moline, Ill. As I write this blog, we are subzero with more than a foot of snow on the ground

With the momentum of the Winter Olympics, advertisements promoting milk are featured with athletes and how milk fuels their passion

The path to dairy farm ownership is not an easy one. For some families, the transfer of the dairy from one generation to the next can be filled with highs and lows

I was watching the Land O’Lakes Farm Bowl via the internet yesterday to see how the professional football players and farmers fared in this obstacle course