Here’s a tough question: If you are hitting yourself on the head with a spatula and are complaining because it hurts, what should you do? Answer: Stop it!

Thank you to those who called or e-mailed me your thoughts on supply management.

Proud to Dairy and Progressive Dairyman were recently proud to sponsor shirts for this year’s class of students attending the Southern Great Plains Dairy Consortium (SGPDC).

A retired professional football player, one who had played on championship teams, related to me how the progression of his career had gone from the Pop Warner league of his youth through middle and high school, college and then the pros.

When profit margins tighten, many dairy producers look for ways to reduce expenses.

With the current economic climate, more and more dairy farmers are often advised that the best remedy is to increase the efficiency with which they use their feeds, but is higher feed efficiency always a good thing?

After denying a request for a 60-day delay, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April announced its new rule on rendering practices for dead cattle would be effective April 27 and that all renderers must be in compliance with the rule by Oct. 26.

Wearing her sparkling tiara and white sash over a red T-shirt, Minnesota’s Princess Kay of the Milky Way Kristy Mussman passed out dairy products from behind a table in the dairy aisle of a local grocery store.

Low-carbon feed is a brand new term just beginning to surface in the dairy industry as a result of efforts to reduce dairy’s overall carbon footprint.

As herd sizes have grown, so have the storage units that preserve the forages used to feed dairy cows.