Extra days open, premature culling, lost milk production and even death are some of the costly consequences of lameness on a dairy, but there are ways producers can cut down on losses.

During the winter months, birds can be a costly nuisance on the dairy, but there is help available to producers to effectively reduce the population of their feathered foes.

“When our family business was on the line, the learning curve is very sharp,” recalls Amy Marcoot, president of Marcoot Jersey Farm Inc. “The primary reason I came back to the farm was to protect the family tradition.”

My parents always pushed us to be lifelong learners. We watched my dad reading industry magazines. We saw my parents going to meetings about all different business, agriculture and dairy topics. That instilled in my siblings and me that we should always be learning.

A Greene County, New York, woman pleaded guilty to stealing at least $3.1 million from Cargill Inc. over 10 years and causing at least $25 million in losses. The woman was an accounting manager at Cargill, the country’s largest privately held corporation, based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Our list of top 25 articles of 2016, as measured by web traffic, was published in the Dec. 12, 2016, issue. Check it out here. We asked our team of editors and copy editors to select a favorite article (or article series) of the year that didn’t make the top 25. See their picks below.

Ridley Block Operations has initiated a voluntary recall of a single batch of its beef cattle feed product, Ultralyx 24 percent + 3 percent Mag Composite Block, because it contains elevated levels of non-protein nitrogen (NPN) that may be harmful to beef cattle.

A new congressional effort to prod federal regulators to crack down on the inappropriate labeling of products designed to imitate milk drew support today from the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), which thanked lawmakers for speaking out on the issue.

During the 2016 Vita Plus Dairy Summit, two dairies shared their strategies for managing through the tough times of milk price lows.

International, national and regional financial services companies with a stake in the dairy industry share similar outlooks heading into 2017: Recovery is on the way, with strong ties to global markets.