“Helping a neighbor,” my dad used to say, “is the greatest church work you can ever do.” I remember when my wife and I started dating, I explained to her how we would help neighbors get their hay baled or corn picked. She was skeptical, but after meeting Dad, I think she understood.

“But it’s past its expiration date,” she said. “How do you know it’s still good?” “Because it’s butter,” I said. “It’s always good.” I know when my father has done something wrong because there’s no butter in the fridge.

This September marked three years of agvocating for our dairy farm. Since I started, I have met so many amazing people across the country, traveled to states I have never visited and gained some great friends along the way. I have, however, had my fair share of vegan extremists, Internet trolls and social media drama.

I will never understand people’s obsession with costumes. I was invited to a costume party a while back, and when asked what I was going to come as, I replied, “A sexy farmer.” To which, my friend asked me: “Why?”

Grand champion Holstein Sheeknoll Durham Arrow, known by friends and family as “Thomas,” may have taken home reserve supreme champion from World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, but she has given her owners an even bigger prize: a dream come true.

Jill Kopfer was expecting to have a chaotic week at World Dairy Expo (WDE) in Madison Wisconsin, but an unanticipated traveling companion added even more fun and chaos.

Dairy producers in Wisconsin were the most likely to attend the World Dairy Expo in 2016, according to a recent survey conducted by Progressive Dairyman.

The Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) released the updated version of the association’s Gold Standards for raising quality heifers on the first day of World Dairy Expo 2016. Dr. Bob James, DCHA academia-at-large director, says he’s excited about the new standards and feels this version is much more science-based than the original standards, which were released in 2009.

With three major foreign markets setting highs for the year, August 2016 U.S. alfalfa hay exports volume grew to a new high, according to USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service monthly data.

CBC News in Canada reports a new alfalfa will hit Canadian markets in February. The new alfalfa is reported to be drought and flood resistant, even hoof resistant, and high yielding.