New Zealand is home to about 5 million people and 5 million cows. That is half the number of cows that are in the United States, all on an island not quite the size of California

As most dairy farmers know, the previous milk check was quite disheartening

Multiple media outlets shared stories last week that truckloads of fresh farm milk are dumped into Milwaukee’s sewerage system

At the midpoint of 2023, milk prices are significantly worse than many, including me, expected coming into the year

The reason stressed cows produce less milk appears to be rooted in lactose synthesis, which is limited when cows are challenged with a stressor, describe researchers from the University of California,...

Do year-over-year (YOY) milk production gains and discounted spot milk signal a surplus?

The United Nations expects India to surpass China as the most populous country on the planet by mid-2023

Referring to dairy processing as a supply chain is much too simplistic, believes Chuck Turner. Instead, the word the fluid milk bottler thinks best describes the complexity of these operations is “matrix.”

When it comes to milk production meeting the needs of citizens, 26 states fall short of even producing enough milk to fill beverage milk demand. Those states each produce less than 300 pounds of milk per...

The 2022 milk production data is out. It tells the story of two dairy worlds

While Idaho’s dairy industry remains healthy, dynamic, and growing, hard-charging Texas is growing so fast that it may soon overtake Idaho as the nation’s third-largest dairy state based on...

On a percentage basis, 6.4% of all U.S. dairy farms holding permits to sell milk left the business last year. That exit ranks sixth all-time since data tracking began on this statistic in 1992

For the past few weeks, we have been keeping our eye on one amazing cow that has far exceeded our production expectations

When it comes to milk quality, there are details I can see now that I couldn’t before we had our voluntary milking system

Milking in both our parlor and with the robots provided some benefits, but certain costs recently led us back to milking exclusively with one system

Being in sales can have a bad reputation, but I appreciate it as a chance to solve problems and provide value for customers

I don’t envy USDA statisticians. The U.S. produces billions of pounds of milk a month from over 9 million cows, and we expect the USDA to be able to tell us how much it is changing

If a dairy farm is a car running on the gasoline that is money, a growing heifer is a racecar driver with its foot to the pedal, using that gas up fast and furiously

The 140,000 head reduction in dairy cow numbers from May 2021 to January 2022 has rightly been cited as a major reason for weak milk production growth in recent months