Enclosed spaces can be death traps. Farmers are busy people with a long list of tasks to complete and a shortage of daylight. However, a little extra time to think through a situation could save a life....

Feed is best utilized when consumed by your cows, and a reduction in losses from shrink can reap great financial benefits

With the aid of finger paints, Stephanie Arndt and Pandora the Painted Cow are making dairy approachable for youth. Children and adults alike in central New York are learning where their favorite dairy...

Kraft's "Lunchables Uploaded" is more than a meal in a box. They got me. After reading this week's Hoard's Dairyman Intel about the best new food products of 2014, I decided to try the chart topper "Lunchables...

Farms can be dangerous places. On working farms, there's constant movement of people and equipment. And with summer, that means more activity and more people

Applying fungicide to alfalfa may result in a yield bump, but that gain may not be enough to cover application costs

Bunker silos are a great storage option for feed when filled, covered and managed correctly

To reduce aggressive interactions, house cows and heifers separately before calving

Having those hard conversations while creating a farm succession plan isn't fun, but it is necessary

Feeding heifer diets containing greater levels of nonfiber carbohydrates resulted in improved average daily gains from 12 to 28 weeks of age

Ration tweaks can soften the blow

Compared to their component-fed counterparts, it took TMR-fed heifers a bit longer to catch up

Nearly 90 percent of employees will make their stay or go decision within the first six months on the job

Shrink is hard to define, but committing to best management practices during harvest, ensiling and feedout can reduce its impact. Over the past few years, sustainability has earned its status as a dairy...

Understanding science takes away the scare tactics. A few of us liked science class. Others catnapped during the detailed and technical presentations. However, some of those very concepts are now playing...

E.U. milk production quotas ended on Wednesday, raising global export potential for an already big source

Genomics is taking away some of the guesswork

Having those hard talks are worth the effort when it comes to farm transition planning

My bout with an intestinal infection hardened my stance on raw milk. I spent most of my Christmas break helping my boyfriend on his 40-cow dairy in northwestern Wisconsin. The first couple of weeks of...

Since pulsation came on-line, machines have taken a lot of flak for causing mastitis. Observations of the entire milking process, though, are needed to unroot the cause of milk quality problems. Since...