Don’t underestimate the impact that government purchases are having on the dairy market

Most of us have heard stories of the Knights of the Round Table. They were characters in the legend of King Arthur’s kingdom

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been a big player in the relief packages offered to farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Urbanization is a tricky subject. It affects each state, region, county, and town differently, and there are certainly benefits to expanding our communities

There are lots of times that it has been hard to think of the future of the dairy industry with optimism. Especially after the challenges of the last few years

Ten years ago, or even just five, it’s likely safe to guess that not many people thought about food on the cellular level. If they did, it was probably not about using cells to create entirely new...

The U.S. House of Representatives has begun consideration of HR 5038, “The Farm Workforce Modernization Act.” It is a bill that fully addresses both immigration reform priorities for the dairy...

Sign-up for the new Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is well underway, and sign-ups have been steady since enrollment began on June 17

Signup for the new Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program is rapidly approaching, and the 2019 decision is easy given the data already known for the first few months of this year

Originally included in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, known to many of us as the farm bill, it has finally reached the point where dairy farmers must decide their level of participation

Congress stepped up in a big way when it passed the 2018 Farm Bill in late December

Positive employee morale can carry initiatives over mountains previously thought impassable

California has done it again! You’re welcome!

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) announced September 30 was achieved after months of hard-nosed negotiations

I would like to provide some perspective after reading your Hoard’s Dairyman Intel item “What will the dairy world look like in 2030?”

Before I state anything else, let me be clear; this is not a post about small farms versus large farms

A year has passed since Canada circled its collective domestic milk market wagons and deployed the Class 7 milk pricing strategy. Since then, Canadian and U.S. dairy interests have sparred in a h

Before this piece starts the arguments for and against the above stated question, I want to simply open this as a conversation

Although feed costs have come down from the record levels that resulted from the 2012 drought, they remain well above levels prior to 2012