Emptying your pockets before throwing your jeans or coat in the wash is especially important for farmers — you never know what will end up in there after a busy day on the farm

Forage quality tops the list for important contributions to the health and profitability of all livestock but often remains an afterthought

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

A dairy farm seems like the ultimate dream for a cat

These are the items I’ve been using a ton of lately

Seven life-size cow replicas painted like influential local cows can now be spotted around Fort Atkinson, Wis

Although this year’s recipient of the Klussendorf-MacKenzie Award did not grow up on a dairy farm, he witnessed his grandfather manage many successful Guernsey farms

As the global dairy industry meets in Madison, Wis., World Dairy Expo is not complete without the trade show. Tuesday was abuzz as the trade show opened for the first day

Do you ever have something just click for you? So much of what we do in our lives is really based on our mental perception — what we can grasp in our brains and then practically implicate

When you live a dairy life, there’s always something that doesn’t go to plan. Make a plan for the day and then laugh at it and throw it in the garbage

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?...

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

In years past, while milking in the parlor, labeling an animal as a cull cow was pretty straightforward

Served in a classic cone, layered with cookie dough, whipped together with fresh peaches, concocted into a brownie-lover’s dream, drenched with strawberries, submerged in a tall glass of root beer,...

I have often felt there was an invisible wall between the beef and dairy industries, preventing them from communicating or learning from each other

July is National Ice Cream Month, and there is no better time to figure out which flavor aligns with your Zodiac sign

As dairy farmers, our life is lead wide open each and every day

During my reign as the 2022 Virginia Dairy Princess, I was asked a particularly interesting question, “What do you think cows would say if they could talk?”

When we started milking in our robotic milking facility, we were fetching cows that hadn’t come up to milk on their own seven to eight times per day