Digi-Star is pleased to announce that TMR Tracker 5.0 will be released this fall. It offers several enhanced user functions, including a new dry matter change log for each ingredient with inventory price effective dates, time tracking for loading and unloading ingredients, automated desktop reports and a daily diary to track on-farm events that might impact feed intake. The product is also fully integrated with Digi-Star's Moisture Tracker.

A new ad campaign from fast-food giant McDonald’s is taking a bold approach to answering consumers’ questions about its products.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is registering the herbicide Enlist Duo with first-time ever restrictions to manage the problem of resistant weeds. The herbicide is for use in controlling weeds in corn and soybeans genetically-engineered (GE) to tolerate 2,4-D and glyphosate.

While it is well-known that the rumen has a complex microbiome (primarily bacteria and protozoa), the diversity of microorganisms found in the lower gut is less appreciated. However, the maintenance of a well-balanced microbiome in the lower gut may be as important to animal health and feed utilization as is the maintenance of a stable rumen microflora.

An undercover video taken by activists at a New Mexico dairy has triggered a New Mexico Livestock Board investigation into practices there, after the farm shut down operations in September, according to a CBS News report.

From our fun ice cream promotion to putting booth visitors on the cover of Progressive Dairyman magazine (virtually, anyway), we were busy at World Dairy Expo 2014. So were hundreds of other vendors and attendees. Here's a list of all of our coverage of the 2014 World Dairy Expo.

Jeremy Howard Sales and Marketing Manager J. R. Simplot Company Emmett, Idaho

The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) announced several significant changes for the Dec. 2, 2014, U.S. dairy cattle genetic evaluations.

Ranchers should be mindful of three important components of pasture health when considering restocking beef cattle, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.