The dairy checkoff has two critical missions on behalf of America’s dairy farm families: help grow sales and build consumer trust.

The USDA’s latest Certified Organic Survey showed signs of a growing organic dairy industry – but one facing challenges.

Are your employees content just being responsible for doing their assigned tasks? Have they moved on to feeling accountable for the outcomes their efforts generate? Many producers would likely respond “No” to these questions, even while thinking, “How nice that would be.”

Skim milk powder (SMP) and nonfat dry milk (NDM) are often confused and sometimes combined like they were the same thing. They are similar – but in some ways, they are very different. As the dairy industry transitions from a national business to a global business, the U.S. dairy industry must transition to international standards to compete.

Doing business in America is often a family affair. Indeed, Forbes estimates that 90 percent of U.S. businesses are owned or controlled by a family – a truly startling statistic. But this statistic covers a wide array of set-ups. The struggles of the Cargill clan, one of the richest families in the world, are quite different from those of small-town suppliers and most family farms.

More and more frequently, Tom was saying he’d had enough. He wasn’t one to complain but, at 67 years old, he was getting tired. Though he loved the farm and everybody around him knew it, the worry lines on his face were a bit more pronounced each day.

Post-harvest season is the ideal time to formulate the next silage campaign. John Goeser walks you through the elements of planning that campaign for success (and you may need to take exit polls on your current bunker or pile … ).

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Once again, we asked 16 of our editors and graphic designers to weigh in on their top selections for the many different magazine covers published between Oct. 19, 2015, and Oct. 1, 2016.

If I were to ask you about the top 10 things that make a great Christmas celebration for you, what would you answer? Most families I work with want to maintain family harmony or get back on track again as “a happy family.” Dr. Nikki Gerrard’s research of farm families found that one of the ways families keep resilient or strong is through celebration.