I am in our nation’s capital for two days. I’ve written about the first day, just completed, and described the second day that will follow tomorrow.

When we started publishing 18 issues at the beginning of the year, some people asked me if the dairy industry produced enough news to merit publishing 50 percent more frequently than we had been for the last 20 years.

Students from Dalhart Elementary and Allyn Finch Intermediate schools were asked to enter a contest and draw pictures of “Where do you think cows live?” for the March 25, 2008 issue of the Progressive Dairyman magazine.

Get ready for the new and improved “black box,” as genomic selection is upon us!

The U.S. Dairy Export Council reported in February 2008 that on a total-solids basis, more than 9.5 percent of U.S. milk production was exported.

Editor’s note: The author submitted the following in response to the article by Ben Yale, “It’s a small world after all,” also in this issue.

A call that I often get from dairy producers and dealers goes something like this, “Norm, I don’t know what the problem is.

As we enjoy this spring season, flocks of geese are flying north in their characteristic V-formation.

Most high-performance dairies that I work with don’t have superstars.

Ten years ago, farm animal welfare was rarely discussed in livestock circles.