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

Positive employee morale can carry initiatives over mountains previously thought impassable

Congress stepped up in a big way when it passed the 2018 Farm Bill in late December. The dairy portion is far more farmer friendly than the previous dairy title, and its revamped provisions may actual

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

Few parts of California’s effort to implement a Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) have been fast, easy, or uncomplicated, but one of the most important ones seems to be coming together well

When dairyman Hank Choate saw the “unavailable” number pop up on his cell phone screen late one Thursday afternoon in April, he assumed it was not a call he wanted to take

It all began with a thoughtful phone call by an Ohio dairyman who wanted to learn more about his milk check

We had a wake-up call about market risk when a number of Wisconsin and Minnesota farms lost their milk markets

At the end of June, I was presented with the opportunity to give testimony to the Oregon House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on the topic of technology

In March 2017, a lawsuit filed against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation claimed that a herd of 200 cows produced the same amount of waste as a city of 96,000 people

The agricultural community could benefit greatly from defining itself in a positive light.In the Netherlands, public opinion supports small over large farm operations. Approval from local zoning offic

A few months ago we had the opportunity to host our congressman, Representative Jody Hice, at our dairy farm. He had great questions about our operation