Why do milk components matter? During the March Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, the University of Illinois’ Mike Hutjens reviewed several reasons why it pays to improve component production

“We told dairy farmers for five to seven years that fat was valuable,” said Phil Plourd, president of Blimling and Associates

The height of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 and the photos of milk being dumped that splashed across headlines pushed base excess plans imposed by cooperatives to a prominent place

In June of 2014, Time magazine’s cover showed a picture with a title that read “Eat Butter.”

Variation of milk throughout the year has more do to with seasonal differences than heat stress, explained Penn State’s Kevin Harvatine at the Tri-State Dairy Nutrition Conference

Multiple component pricing (MCP) could be coming to the Appalachian and Southeast Federal Milk Marketing Orders