On every dairy, there are a few key phrases that you can shout across the barnyard in a single breath or mutter discreetly out of your mother’s hearing that are usually met with appreciative chuckles or a groan and a few choice words. We have gathered a few of these gems for your enjoyment. Does anything sound familiar?

When beef herd profit margins shrink, the losses from grazing toxic tall fescue gain attention. Convincing cow herd owners to eradicate their old fescue and plant new novel-endophyte fescue is difficult in the best of times. Now, the case will be remade by the Alliance for Grassland Renewal.

Five dairy farm families represented California’s dairy history and future on the California Milk Advisory Board’s “Legacy of Generations” float in the 128th Rose Parade, Jan. 2.

Liquid manure can be costly to handle and haul long distances, causing dairy farms to consider alternative options to just storing everything in a lagoon.

With the recent fall of cattle prices, producers everywhere are looking for ways to make extra money from their quality beef. Jimmy Taylor, who runs roughly 12,000 acres of leased and owned ground with a herd of approximately 600 cattle near Cheyenne, Oklahoma, collects premiums on carcass quality by focusing on genetics to produce top-grade beef.

With the objective to develop novel waste-to-resource technologies capable of converting organic wastes into value-added fuel and chemical products, Dr. Dana Kirk, Ph.D., P.E. in biosystems and agricultural engineering at Michigan State University, had his work cut out for him.

Along with the hope milk prices and income margins will increase in 2017, dairy farmers will likely encounter something else they haven’t seen in a while – rising interest rates.

Most Progressive Cattleman readers need two crew members to get through calving season.

Both the U.S. average milk price and margin over feed cost hit 12-month highs in November, marked improvements compared to earlier this summer, according to monthly summaries from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Have you ever wondered if those additives you put in the feed at such low inclusion rates actually make it to each cow?