If you haven't heard, both HSUS and PETA are emotion-driven organizations with the goal to have animals as equals to humans. Fans flocking to Green Bay will see a billboard placed by one of their front...

Hoard's Dairyman has been offering its summer editorial internship program for 23 years. Three of our current editors were editorial interns at Hoard's. Eager, ambitious dairy students interested in writing...

We drove through central and southern Illinois on the way to and from the joint American Association of Bovine Practitioners and National Mastitis Council meeting in St. Louis, Mo

Severe drought and record high corn prices have made 2011 a nightmare for beef producers in Texas and surrounding states. One result, though, is the value of cull dairy cows has soared to levels milk producers...

This 3,000-cow state-of-the-art Indonesian dairy matches every thing found in California outside of labor efficiency. by Rob Rippchen Recently, my works travels took me to Indonesia where I had an opportunity...

While it's not June, it's always in season to promote dairy. The Young Dairy Leaders Institute began in 1994 with its first class of young leaders. Some class participants were dairy producers, while others...

"For many corn growers, the 2011 growing season came to an end late last week over much of northern Wisconsin," notes University of Wisconsin's corn specialist, Joe Lauer. "Corn in many areas had not...

What can photos tell us? A lot, when we discuss pedigrees and breeding. On Wednesday, September 14, Hoard's Dairyman pictured 14 of the farm's best Guernseys. The day began early, with two staff members...

If you can't do everything at once, here's where to start. Dairy cows like cool weather; they do not do like heat or humidity. Some management experts have even described them as "little heaters inside...

As dairy producers, it is inevitable that we will eventually become beef producers

DCRC's two-day meeting gives us a chance to learn from top researchers and producers. This November 10 and 11 will mark the seventh consecutive year that the Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) is...

Dairy operations are as varied as the people who own them. Various factors contribute to each herd's success and challenges – financial footing, labor, feedstuff availability, weather, and family...

It was a much-needed turnaround from the financial disaster a year before

Growing up in a populous dairy region, I often failed to recognize how expansive our local dairy infrastructure actually was. If we faced a milking equipment break down, someone was there, within the hour,...

The Daily Beast (www.thedailybeast.com), an online news site which merged with Newsweek this year, printed their list of the "20 Most Useless College Majors." Let's just say, we don't think they nailed...

Steve Ingham, food science professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, was the lead researcher and is now a food safety administrator with the state

Here's a quick dairy farming quiz: What three things do all dairies have a constant supply of? Some easy answers are cows, milk . . . and manure. All day and every day, manure never stops coming. The hard...

Our neighbors across the pond in the U.K. have developed a campaign, known as "make mine Milk," to increase milk consumption amongst British citizens. On Tuesday, the newest component of their movement,...

In North America, there are many native ruminants, that is, herbivore animals with a complex digestive system, a major compartment of which is the rumen. Some present-day examples are the bison (Bison...

WSU student Anna Gibson shares more adventures from working on a dairy in Tasmania.Working in the dairy industry, I have witnessed amazing moments: a calf's first breath, perfect sunrises, cows recovering...