I was driving to a farm visit, and any time spent in my car I am tuned into the local National Public Radio (NPR) station

Our staff is like our family. They might not be related to us by blood, but we respect and care about them like we would our own

It is no secret that the politics in California are a joke. For decades, California’s politics have haunted the agricultural community, but over the past few years we have been able to watch its...

At the American Guernsey Association’s national convention held in June, outstanding cows and herds received awards for their achievements from the previous year

It’s been a summer where we have found ourselves short on help with a never-ending to-do list

Who in their right mind would choose a career that requires attention and responsibility 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

We currently are the host to two male carpet gnomes who we have the pleasure of calling our children

Growing up in the 1980s on my family's dairy farm in central Oregon, I really was unaware of the farm crisis

How many risk management meetings have you been to in the last two years? I must've attended at least three or four and been invited to over a dozen

Before I state anything else, let me be clear; this is not a post about small farms versus large farms

Dairies normally have guidelines for culling cows, but how many of you have written rules or at least go through and cull calves and heifers on a regular basis?

If you haven’t heard the expression, “It's hotter than Georgia asphalt," then you should take a trip to Georgia in the summer and walk across the asphalt without any shoes on

Growing up I always enjoyed the time spent off the farm when my siblings and I would go to local and national dairy shows

I spent many hours last week on a bus while attending the National Jersey Convention. Driving through the curving roads of Wooster County, Ohio, to check out Amish Country, farmland, and stopping at several...

As our family travels down the path of robotic milking, we continue to learn lessons that I will pass on to you

The agriculture community in Tulare, Calif., has been working out lately and has developed a few muscles

In last Friday’s blog I tackled the word “sustainability.” I explained the social aspect of it and gave tips on how dairy farms could achieve their social sustainability goals

Many people are sitting next to us in cubicles or standing by us in the grocery line. Or in our case, it could be our neighbors, the sales rep, or a farmer just like us, who is struggling with physical...

This week’s post was going to be something completely different, and then Natalie Portman happened

Winning in the showring is great, but there’s so much more for youth to learn from exhibiting animals.