TRENDING: DAIRY CONSUMPTION Fluid slides, but good news elsewhere U.S. fluid milk consumption continued its four-decade slide in 2017.

Aftershock 3918 new Holstein milk production record-holder Selz-Pralle Aftershock 3918 is the new national milk production record-holder for the Holstein breed.

Sharon had hauled the old piano home in a stock trailer. It came out of the Miner’s Club in Mountain City where, according to the bartender, it had set since the early ’30s.

This holiday season, I’m giving myself a very special gift: low expectations. Last year was my first Christmas as a married woman, and I had big plans.

U.S. dairy owners prefer paying their kids for doing on-farm chores other than milking. That’s according to recent online and phone surveys conducted by Progressive Dairyman. Among just the dairy producers we surveyed, the results were even more obvious in support of payment.

U.S. cheese shipments to China, South Korea, Mexico and Japan have soared, and the broader outlook is promising as the world’s growing love affair with cheese continues.

Pest control comes in many forms. Although fly season is over, birds, rats and mice can be just as costly to dairy farmers.

How did you get started in videography? Hagenow: My passion for videography all started in grade school, when I created my first video project for a computers class.

They say in the software industry that it’s better to own a slice of the watermelon than the whole raisin. Yet these city people don’t think the same principles can apply to a farmer.

As dairy businesses evolve and the economics of agriculture changes, farmers today are collaborating in ways that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, according to Farm Credit East’s Jan Bitter.