The tradition of cattlemen and women serving as stewards of America’s natural resources was honored on July 14 with the announcement of the six regional Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP) winners.

Cooper Miles Moore joined our brood of little farm boys on April 28. Eight days later, I was more than ready to get back in the barn and get back to normal life. Here we are, nearly three months later, and Mr. Cooper still isn’t the farming type. I swear, no matter what we try, that little guy is one step ahead of us.

Proponents of no-baffle barns believe a more open concept allows a more natural environment for the cows:

Currently, ventilation and cooling are hot topics in dairying.

The sheer volume of information collected on a dairy farm may seem daunting to track, but proper record-keeping can play a vital role when making decisions.

The European Commission (EC) released a dairy farmer support package that includes incentives to reduce milk production, allows European Union (EU) member states to provide aid specific to their producers, and extends the use of intervention stocks to keep surplus dairy products off the market.

A common Dutch saying “meten is weten” translates to “measuring is knowing” in English. This saying could not be any more appropriate for precision dairy farming in the Netherlands. With more robotic milkers than any other nation and the ubiquitous use of technology, the Netherlands serves as a technological hub for the dairy industry.

Milk price and feed costs drive margins at the farm level. Certainly, sources of revenue other than milk and expenses other than feed impact profitability – but not of the same magnitude.

For this issue, I set out to feature two dairies’ cross-ventilated barns. I went out to visit them with an agenda: to write an article about each one, highlighting their newly constructed barn.

Land O’Lakes Inc. and its seed and crop input brand, WinField, recently partnered with Fair Oaks Farms, a 30,000-plus-cow dairy in Fair Oaks, Indiana, to build a 12,000-square-foot exhibit on the dairy’s agritourism campus.