American consumers and American dairy farmers love cheese, but we likely don’t often remember the by-product that comes from making that cheese

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Despite the fact that we’re a dwindling part of the population (which is a tragedy through my 25-year-old eyes), I’m always thrilled to come across a fellow farm kid

Various authors and studies have likened willpower to a muscle. They have explained that it must be repeatedly practiced before it becomes stronger and the new habit second nature

For farmers, working with family can be an awesome blessing or one of life’s greatest challenges

It was a success and I still can’t believe it! If you had told me a few months ago that I was going to host a virtual tour for kids who couldn’t see the Dairy Council of California’s...

Two months. It’s been just over two months since I made the bold step of quitting my full-time, steady, and equally rewarding job as a youth 4-H educator (which I loved, by the way)

We know there are so many ways to enjoy the milk we produce — in a glass, on an ice cream cone, as a cup of yogurt, as sour cream on a burrito, or as cheese on just about anything

Dear Jacob, A decade ago I introduced you to the world with my first "Around the Kitchen Table" column

When I was 2 years old, my parents both worked as herd managers on successful dairy farms in central New York, but then, everything changed

It seems like the world is at a standstill, but the view outside my farmhouse in East Moline, Ill., tells a different story

To say we are all trying to find a new normal would be an understatement. With schools closing and classrooms moving to distance learning, the biggest learning curve I think

When trying to formulate an idea for this week’s blog, I honestly couldn’t decide if I needed to stay away from anything to do with COVID-19 or not. Maybe I should have written

I hate watching the news. But the other day, I was stuck watching the news and I literally shuddered at all the depressing stuff going on in the world right now

Looking at our farm here in East Moline, Ill., it is business as usual. Cows still have to be milked three times a day

Farmers literally fed the Allied forces and the world’s war-ravaged citizens during World War II

The world’s top milk production cow, Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918, is just one of the 450 registered Holsteins at her central Wisconsin dairy

What’s an influencer? In marketing, it’s an individual who has the power to impact others’ thoughts or purchases. In agriculture, I’ve heard it described as an advocate, AGvocate,...

Sometimes it feels like every headline I see is so far-fetched and irrelevant to my daily life that I wonder if I’m the weird one

I will be 30 years old in just a few months. Throughout the years, I have seen high school workers on our farm come and go