The author and her husband, Duane, own and operate a 550-cow dairy in Cochranville, Pa. I have come to the conclusion that feeling caught up is not part of a dairy farmer’s day. Our work is continuous ...

I often put my current event blinders on when I write for others to read. Politics divides, and my goal here has always been to unite. So, I tend to dance around the hard topics. But there is a very ...

Farm kids tend to tag along for all sorts of chores throughout the day on the farm. For many, one big pro of farming is being able to avoid daycare for young kids by raising them right alongside you ...

The author is the principal of Quarterra, a consulting firm dedicated to helping its clients understand the food and agriculture industries of Latin America. To learn more, visit quarterraglobal.com ...

Nestlé has announced its departure from the Dairy Methane Action Alliance (DMAA), an organization that it helped found in ...

Jason Lombard, veterinary epidemiologist for Colorado State University, presented the Hoard’s Dairyman September webinar, ...

The old standards like the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83) for horizontal positioning and the North American Vertical ...

With both sides dug in and seeing little incentive to compromise, disruptions to federal services may be the new normal for ...

The postweaning period is a very dynamic transition as heifers move to solid feed intake,” detailed Miner Institute’s Sarah ...

Longevity is a matter of profitability on dairy farms; keeping cows sufficiently productive means they return more on the ...

Temporary drops in milk yield can hide a cow’s true potential. Characterizing perturbations not only helps measure the real ...