National Agriculture Day was celebrated on March 19th this year. Take the time to thank someone you know in agriculture!

Daylight savings time is a period of adjustment for us as well as our animals

Leaving the farm, even for a short while, requires detailed planning ahead of time

On our farm, we are always evolving, and in the near future, that includes the way cow traffic will flow through our freestall barn

If you want to teach teenagers about dairy farming, consider using YouTube, a popular platform utilized by that age demographic

A productive cow isn’t always a profitable cow. A profitable cow performs in milk volume and quality, breeds back quickly and experiences few health events

It is common for producers to experience lower butterfat tests and higher numbers of butterfat inversions this time of year

Robots provide critical data insights to help you be a better herd manager

Dairy animals need plenty of clean water as part of their balanced ration

One year ago, on November 5, I was getting married. When my husband and I set our wedding date long before that, we didn’t even think about it landing on the end of daylight savings time

The Animal Agriculture Alliance’s recap of animal rights conferences in 2023 revealed certain tactics these groups plan to use to advance their agendas in the year ahead

Having data does not necessarily translate into value. The real value comes from transforming individual data points into insights through context and connections

Several years ago, Tony Louters was on a hunt. The Merced, California, dairyman wanted more information on his milking cows in order to improve reproductive protocols and, more importantly, health. The...

Responsible production has been a generations-long commitment made by our nation’s dairy farm families

In my 27 years — don’t laugh at my naivety — I have concluded that generations always complain about the next generation

How does the saying go? Something like, “The worst sentence in the English language is ‘That’s the way we’ve always done it’”? Man, if that doesn’t sound like...

Animal rights activism is big business, bringing in over $800 million in income annually — up from $650 million last year and $595 million in the year prior

I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve seen or heard a farmer call a consumer stupid. At first, it makes me cringe because it’s just kind of mean. I mean, name-calling? Really?...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a consumer buzzword that most of us have heard since the release of ChatGPT4. Now, Google, Facebook, and others are trying to catch up with OpenAI and believe it will...

As we were moving some cows and heifers to our calving pen today, it hit me that the cattle we were moving all have due dates further out than my own