The use of tile drainage varies across the Midwest

The digital presence you create for your farm and yourself is going to last a lot longer than anything else you’ve left behind

We started chopping our corn silage July 20 this year and finished chopping August 18. It has definitely been one of the longest silage seasons I have ever encountered. We planted a good bit more corn

The age-old joke surrounding holidays is that they’re filled with stress from old family squabbles and new family drama. Is that true? Are most people’s holidays filled with dread and anxiety?

Hoard’s Dairyman and Hay and Forage Grower staff visited the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Research Station for some professional development.

There has been so much going on around the farm I couldn’t choose a topic to write about, so I’m going to update y’all on a few things

Searching for a reflective topic, I decided to browse the Hoard’s Dairyman archives from late May and June from 20 years ago

Pinching pennies may be old hat to some, but for others changing the way we think can uncover some untapped income opportunities. Mike Hutjens presented “On-farm feed diagnostics”

Two recent experiences with rules and regulations made me realize how much government guidelines need to adapt to changing farming practices

If you are anything like me, you have a wide array of thin, holy, worn out t-shirts specifically for farm use, and they are cluttering your closet

If there’s one thing dairy farmers know well, it’s that when prices go up, they’ll surely come back down

Last week some people were up in arms about red Skittles falling out of a truck on a Wisconsin road

The Golden State is known worldwide as a top producer of hundreds of crops and commodities. Due to the rich, abundant soil and ideal, long growing season, California farmers and ranchers have benefited

“Exploring how this year’s forage will feed” was presented by John Goeser of Rock River Laboratory

Recently, I received a dairy product promotion email. The title was “How do nut milks compare to cow’s milk? First of all, stop calling it nut milk! It is nut juice or beverage or drink

“I want aggressive eaters.” This phrase earned me some questionable looks as I explained to fellow students what I looked for while feeding calves

Growing up exhibiting Brown Swiss dairy cattle at the World Dairy Expo is by far my favorite childhood memory. The lessons learned, the friendships made, and the memories created in Madison, Wis

The chicken or the egg debate has been around for ages. But, in the field of animal care, the discussion of inflammation and its sources, or its repercussions, was presented by Barry Bradford

It’s November 8. Most Americans are celebrating the long-awaited end of the political campaign season

The presentation began with an overview of the forage situation. In 2016, there was a summer drought in the west and northeast sections of the U.S. (and Canada)