Most of our Saturday mornings might include feeding calves, chores, or if we’re younger, maybe watching some cartoons to kick-off the weekend

Summer break is here and so are the kids! Holy moly! I love those little humans, but wow, they have some serious energy

The last thing the dairy industry needed while it’s down is an abuse video . . . but that’s exactly what we got

Find an outlet to vent, to talk. Facebook has groups; Twitter has space. Find a church group or card group. Talk to your spouse

Dairy farming has always felt like an uphill battle. The hours, the pay, the public perception; it feels like too much

School’s out, and summer is finally here! Summertime memories are some of my favorite. As a youth, I had the opportunity to travel the United States every summer

Each year, we go through rain spells and dry spells, hot spells and cold spells. When it is cold, we are thinking about how nice hot weather would be, and when it is hot, we dream about how good that cold...

Comparison is the thief of joy. Let’s enjoy the gifts of this dairy lifestyle

The rain has started falling again, and I am once again staring out the window wondering when and if it will stop

The record cold, all the snow, and now the intense flooding that’s occurred since mid-March really has played havoc on moving forward with field work

I don’t care how I get it, lottery? Rich uncle? Random Nigerian prince that I bail out of jail and is then so thankful he sends me loads of cash? But how would I spend it?

From a business standpoint, the most money saved per heifer on a dairy farm can be saved in the weaned pens. This accounts for calves that are weaned up to when they are around 150 days...

When we started thinking about robotic milking, I had to look outside our region of the U.S. for ideas

If the last couple of years have taught us anything, it's that we don't know anything

Did you know that one in six kids in the U.S. faces hunger? It's even worse in the summer because they might not have access to free or reduced-price school meals

Many of my days are similar to most of yours. I juggle things on the home front while helping out where needed in the barn

Last week, I was in one of our manufacturing plants changing a line over and one of the men, who was very much my senior, mentioned as he worked next to me that I was “tough.”

Guernseys were the foundational breed of the Hoard’s Dairyman herd when the farm was started by W.D. Hoard in 1899. More than a century later, in 2009, Jerseys were added to the herd,...

I can officially say I am a college graduate. This past week, I finished my fourth and final year of college and graduated from Utah State University with a degree in agricultural communications and journalism

Things are moving along on the farm. The concrete has been poured. All five of our robots have been set in place. The walls are beginning to go up on our building