Eight board members were elected by members of the Association of Women in Agriculture Benefit Corporation (AWABC) at their annual meeting on April 5. All board members are passionate about AWA and look...

My grandfather was a Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) milk tester in the 1930s in Alabama

Milking cows in this day and age requires a forever active mind

One of the biggest transitions in forage equipment over the past 20 years or so has been from sicklebar mowers to disc mowers and mower-conditioners

For the 27th year, students from the six New England land grant universities hopped on a bus for a week in January, traveling to dairy farms in the northeastern United States, and Quebec, Prince Edward...

Duddingtonia flagrans is a species of carnivorous soil fungus that shows promise in managing intestinal nematode (“worm”) infestations on both organic and conventional dairies

An excellent synopsis of progress in calf feeding and research over the last 35 years was presented by Jim Drackley in the August 2024 issue of Hoard’s Dairyman

With the transition from pregnancy and the dry period to lactation after calving, dairy cows face significant physiological and metabolic changes

Straw is commonly fed in traditional heifer diets to reduce the energy density of the ration and intake due to straw’s slow and poor digestibility

I’ve been trimming hooves now since the old days (the 1990s), and as I look back and evaluate the world of hoof trimming, I see how it has dramatically changed

Get the latest in dairy news from the U.S. Capitol in the March 2025 edition of the Washington Dairygrams

Ingredients: 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/3 cup baking cocoa 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 table

With a constant focus on managing feed costs, we spend most of the time thinking about ingredients that would qualify as expensive

Many of us often wonder if training farm workers is worth the time and effort it takes to perform

U.S. dairy is strong and growing, and it is the envy of the world,” exclaimed Michael Dykes to the large audience at the International Dairy Foods Association’s (IDFA) 2025 Dairy Forum carrying...

Despite headwinds from highly pathogenic avian influenza, weather challenges in many parts of the country, and a slight contraction in U.S. dairy herds, 2024 maintained many of the thresholds that were...

February is the month that we are supposed to focus on love

It was bound to happen, and one night it did. That 2-foot-high pile of papers and notes collected at continuing education events over the last few years fell over

We have long known that there is a genetic antagonism between milk yield and the percentages of fat and protein