Dairy farmers can especially appreciate that returns rarely come without an investment of time, energy, or money.

Last year, 96% of all farms across the U.S. were family-owned. Those businesses produced 83% of our country’s agricultural ...

During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, businesses and consumers are looking for convenient ways to show their ...

As other countries have put new rules and regulations into place regarding calf transport, the question is not why, but when ...

U.S. whey prices have been rising, with dry whey on the CME spot market breaking above 70 cents per pound ($1,540 per metric ton) in early December and whey protein isolate (WPI) now at record high ...

Every five years, USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services undergo the process of updating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. These guidelines inform all federal food programs, ...

December 18, 2024 — The January 2025 Base Class I Price (fluid milk) was $20.38 which was down $1.05 cents from last month. That price is up $1.90 from a year ago. The next update is January 2024. The ...

What started as a search into robotic milkers led Stephen Mast, a third-generation owner of Calori-D Dairy, to the CowManager monitoring system. “We liked the monitoring aspects of the robots and ...

Allowing a cow to successfully transition into lactation means reducing stress in both the dry and fresh periods.

A 2023 study found the prevalence of lameness in dairy cattle to be 23%. It’s understandable, then, that hoof health and ...