Perhaps you’ve heard the saying “milk does a body good.” That’s true, but dairy products deserve respect for more than just the calcium, vitamin D, and protein they contain

Bill challenged me at a meeting about his high-producing Holstein herd (over 29,000 pounds of milk) with the question, “Do you have data that allows me to evaluate my herd to the national dairy...

New release by Mike Hutjens! New to this edition are sections on: robotic feeding, high digestibility forages, and feeding strategies for increased herd production

In addition to all the nutritional benefits dairy foods can offer growing children, new research has unveiled yet another positive reason to drink milk

The authors recently retired from the USDA-ARS U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, Wis., where they were a research microbiologist and agricultural information specialist

How they achieve 40,000 lbs of milk per cow presented by Tom Kestell, Ever-Green-View Dairy, and Steve Woodford, dairy nutritionist

Fine-tune herd care with new milk analyses presented by Dave Barbano, Cornell University

"A 2017-2018 forage and feed outlook" was presented by Mike Hutjens, University of Illinois, and Mike Rankin, Hay & Forage Grower

Mike Hutjens and Mike Rankin presented "A 2017-2018 forage and feed outlook” webinar

Starch leads a storied life on the modern dairy farm. It begins in the cornfields where sunlight converts water and carbon dioxide to sugars, and these sugars are stored as starch in the grain

In the world of dairy nutrition, there are so many contributing factors to well-made diets . . . especially when it comes to fiber

For dairy producers in the northern United States, corn chopping season is nearing or has already arrived, and along with it, the difficult task of getting it cut at just the right dry matter

You invest a great deal in making top quality feed. Do all that you can to see that it reaches the dairy cow in the best condition and that she consumes it

Management approaches to minimize nutrition-related health and production issues, presented by Bill Stone, Diamond V

The August webinar focused on dry matter intake in four management groups: lactating cows, dry cows, growing heifers, and preweaned calves

Driving dry matter intake on dairy farmspresented by Mike Hutjens, University of IllinoisSponsored by Diamond V. Dry matters intakes continue to be a leading contributor to ca

Mother Nature’s been no friend to dairy producers trying to make forages in the northern part of the United States this year

Nutritional analysis of feedstuffs, particularly forages, is the foundation of feeding programs on a dairy

Add vitamin K to the list of positive attributes that come from a dairy-filled diet. Leafy green vegetables are the most obvious choice when it comes to getting enough of the vitamin

Alternative beverages continue to fill the dairy aisle, but here’s proof that they simply don’t stack up to cows’ milk