“Hello ma’am, is the owner or the gentleman in charge of the purchasing decisions around?”

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

It’s becoming increasingly obvious to me that what we’re doing right now in the dairy industry isn’t working. If it were, family farms wouldn’t be selling out at such an alarming...

There’s a new resource in town, with the latest on feed and nutrition for your cows. Introducing . . . the Feeding Guide, 4th Edition by Mike Hutjens!

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

“It’s a game changer,” shared Ev Thomas of Oak Point Agronomics during the Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, when talking about forage advancements in alfalfa production

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

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

On June 2, the 2018 edition of the Cal Poly Classic Sale brought alumni and supporters to the Central Coast where the sale averaged an impressive $4,784.38

We know Bucky Badger is the mascot for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is found at sporting events, band concerts, and all sorts of places in between

School is finished, it’s getting hot and humid outside, and summertime fun time is here in Georgia . . . well, almost

How many times have we heard this question in our various roles on the farm? Probably countless, and we all know it’s never for just a minute!

For years now, farmers have heard from various organizations and companies within the agricultural world that we need to be advocating for our industry

Across the nation, students are graduating from high school and college

There may have been a time when we were at the happiest place on earth as a family of five, having less than a happy time

Growing up on a dairy farm, I was never treated like the girl. I was given all the same opportunities as my brothers, and it was up to me to take them

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

People have the perspective that dairy farmers have no life. That they work sunup to sundown, and that they eat, sleep, and breathe farming