Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the April 25, 2021 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Dairy markets have a new driver at the wheel: demand. Before 2020, dairy markets hinged mainly on the dynamics of milk supply

On Monday, March 22, the USDA held a 12-hour listening session to hear feedback from the public about the Farmers to Families Food Box Program

Scarcity and oversupply were two of the stories that permeated the past year as COVID-19 influenced dairy markets

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the April 10, 2021 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down our nation and our economy. Our lives have been shattered by countless losses and our industry has been put to the ultimate test

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the March 2021 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Farmers added 93,000 milk cows to the herd between June and December. This is the fastest six-month expansion in more than 22 years

Dairy product sales, both at home and abroad, have changed more in the past 12 months than in any previous five- or 10-year time frame

Pandemic, prices, and PPDs . . . What will 2021 offer?Mark Stephenson, Directory of Dairy Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-MadisonSponsored by Cargill Stephenson looked at the continued impact...

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the January 25, 2021 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Maintaining adequate financial liquidity has become a greater issue for dairy producers in recent years because of the more intense volatility of both earnings and cash flow

In your January 10, 2021 issue . . .MILK MARKET PROJECTIONS REMAIN IN FLUX as USDA economists adjusted the 2021 All-Milk price forecast, down by $1.10 to a $16.60 per hundredweight (cwt.) average. Thi

With 2020 in dairy’s rearview mirror, it’s time to focus on 2021. Even with the new year upon us, 2020 will cast a long shadow

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the December 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

There is no question that dairy prices have recently walked through levels of uncertainty never realized or equaled in our lifetime. On a month-to-month basis, Class III prices routinely swung $5 per

Dairy News as reported in the Washington Dairygrams for the November 2020 issue of Hoard's Dairyman

Stability, predictability, and adequacy — those are three things farmers require from dairy markets

For extreme diseases, wrote the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, extreme methods of cure are most suitable. Faced with a virus that forced the U.S. economy into a lockdown, the federal government

As the industry looks ahead to 2021, milk price outlook remains uncertain as factors weigh on markets that could lift or depress milk prices