When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. This is the phrase that kept coming to my mind as I looked at range condition on a ranch recently, except the tool wasn’t a hammer; it was a hoof.

California Dairies Inc. (CDI), the largest member-owned milk marketing and processing cooperative in the state, is looking for new members and milk.

What goes up must come down! With some horsepower, careful planning and a really long chain, Collins Dairy LLC of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, took down the Harvestore silo they were no longer using to store high-moisture corn on their farm. They now place all high-moisture corn on a concrete drive-over pile. Watch what happened here.

Calving is in full swing in many parts of the country. Here in north-central Montana, we are a bit behind the rest of the country – many of our cows don’t start calving until after mid-February.

There’s still snow on the ground, but have you started thinking about your outreach goals for this spring? And specifically, June Dairy Month? If not, you aren’t alone. That being said, it is time to start thinking. There’s nothing worse than being rushed and stressed while trying to throw something together at the last minute.

Four Western veterinarians traveled to the Dominican Republic in November to help rural dairy producers improve milk production and milk quality.

Lower U.S. soybean meal and alfalfa hay prices weren’t enough to offset lower January 2016 milk prices, squeezing dairy producers’ income under USDA’s Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) formula. 

Watch Baxter Black's first music video, "Is That Rural Enough For You?"