The Farmers Assuring Responsible Management Environmental Stewardship Program (FARM ES) is collaborating with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy to integrate a new, process-based model for greenhouse...

You may be familiar with the 2020 “Capper and Cady study” that published scientific-backed results of dairy’s environmental success

People and businesses around the world have goals about becoming more sustainable, but what sustainability means to each entity can be very different

As more farms explore the potential of cover crops, trial and error helps people learn what works best when it comes to managing these covers and the plantings that follow

Leaders from almost 200 countries around the world are currently gathering in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the United Nations’ (UN) 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate change conference

It wasn’t until I moved to Wisconsin following college that I truly understood what it meant to try to farm in a place where winter seems to last from November to May

What effects do the smoky haze and low air quality have on people, cows, and calves where we farm in the Upper Midwest?

Those in dairy circles have long known that the dairy cow has a unique ability to convert forages into nutritious milk

When feeding dairy cows, a buffer helps maintain a balanced rumen pH by limiting the effects of excess acid. Outside of the cow, buffers in a farm’s fields serve a similar purpose for the water features...

Electricity — it’s usually so plentiful that we take it for granted, not worrying about where it’s coming from or how it gets to us. For some dairies, though, it pays to take the power...

When talking about sustainability in the dairy industry, conversations often involve what can be done on farms to manage manure, enhance crop and animal productivity, reduce emissions

In the April 2023 sire summary release, Semex, will publish a methane index will be available for all of their Holstein sires

Many stories about California agriculture center around a lack of water, but that is not the case this week. The Golden State is being hammered by an intense storm that brought high winds, torrential

An unusually cold snap made our job more challenging this Christmas

For the second year in a row, a Wisconsin county has looked to limit milk truck traffic

At the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, three college students shared their thoughts on sustainability during a panel discussion

Keeping crop residue stubble on your fields can provide a multitude of soil health benefits

When it comes to global warming, all greenhouse gases tend to get lumped into the same bucket. In reality, certain gases behave differently, and that affects their impact on climate change. During the

The role agriculture can play in sustainability is influenced by consumer confidence and their acceptance of our food system and modern farming practices

“Solar needs land. So do farms. Will that drive up food prices?” That’s a question posed by Barron’s Lisa Beilfuss her article in the July 25, 2022, edition of the financial publication