Longtime World Dairy Expo exhibitor Gil Teixeira has experienced the highs and lows of dairy farming over the past 56 years, but he looks forward to the next generation carrying on the dairying tradition.

Weaning a calf is like sending a kid to college: They’re going to cry and miss their mom. But unlike a college student, putting a nose flap on a calf can help break that maternal bond and make the event less stressful.

As the 2016 fall calf run quickly approaches, cow-calf producers and stocker producers alike have business decisions ahead of them. The fall calf marketing period is usually full bore in October and November, which means many cow-calf producers will soon be able to calculate 2016 profits or losses.

We’re halfway through pest season, which is a milestone in and of itself. However, there are still a variety of challenges producers may experience mid-season. Some of the more common issues may include:

Haying has lasted unusually long for us this year. Thanks to a cool, long spring and some well-timed rains in May and June, we ended up with a bumper crop of grass-alfalfa hay this year.

1. Develop a plan Develop a plan for using homegrown forages and determine whether you need to purchase other forages.

What are you going to do with that BMR you planted this spring? The seed is already in the ground. You put it on your best ground to make sure it would grow. There is no turning back now. The stuff grew; you even sprung for the fungicide.

Two U.S. lawmakers representing major U.S. dairy states, U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), have called on Obama Administration leaders to review new Canadian trade policies they say will hurt the U.S. dairy industry.

Deere & Company and The Climate Corp. said they plan to contest legal action announced yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that seeks to block Deere’s acquisition of Precision Planting.

U.S. hay growers are entering the final four months of 2016 facing economic conditions shared by many other agricultural commodity producers: Higher production levels are adding to supplies at a time when global economies are still on the slow road to recovery, putting pressure on producer prices and income.