“You are smart.” “You know cows.” “You can tell stories.”

Last week, I had a very early morning flight from the West Coast to the Midwest. I would be on the flight for four hours followed by an immediate three and a half hour shuttle ride

The first rule of the Margin Protection Program for Dairy or MPP-Dairy is that you cannot count on it to save you

Instagram is a great platform to use to connect directly with consumers

Advancements such as robotics, sexed semen, and RFID tags all enhance the efficiency of daily work on the dairy farm.

A dairy farmer at a recent conference told me, "I hear all the time that we need to tell our story so our consumers can understand what life is like on the farm

The internet has joined the agriculture industry together

The single most important time in a cow’s life that could almost forecast her entire lactation is the transition period

I attended the Wisconsin Junior Holstein convention this past weekend

Imagine you are driving down a country road and you see a farm off in the distance. It looks to be well cared for but as you approach the farm’s drive, there’s something wrong

From a young age, I knew I wanted to study agriculture in college. During my youth, my involvement in dairy judging, showing cows, FFA, among other activities, lead to my decision to choose a college with...

Since 1986, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has compiled an annual summary of the cost to prepare a Thanksgiving meal

During the November Hoard’s Dairyman monthly webinar, Cornell professor, Dave Barbano talked about how milk fatty acid analysis can reflect the metabolic health of cows

With a healthy 74-point margin of victory, Spencer County FFA chapter took home the top prize at the 2017 National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind

The most difficult parts of the internship process are identifying available internships and keeping track of application due dates

There will be seven different covers for the October 25, 2017, issue of Hoard’s Dairyman

Body condition scoring is an inexpensive tool that can benefit your herd in the long run

Mike Hutjens and Mike Rankin presented "A 2017-2018 forage and feed outlook” webinar

There are a lot of things robots can do better and more consistently than humans, but there are still some aspects of the dairy that require a human touch

The digital presence you create for your farm and yourself is going to last a lot longer than anything else you’ve left behind