If someone gave you $1 million to test new ideas on your farm or ranch, what would you develop with it? That’s the question Dwayne Beck and board members and staff of the Dakota Lakes Research Farm near Pierre, South Dakota, pondered earlier this year when the nonprofit received a $1 million unrestricted grant from the Howard G. Buffet Foundation.

Lately, there has been a re-examination of milk fat’s role in the diet.

It’s that time of year again to prepare yourself and your animals for the winter months ahead.

Jim Abacherli, owner and manager of South Slope Dairy, wanted to come up with an easier, less stressful way to handle down cows, and with a few modifications, he outfitted a skid steer bucket to do just that.

Following a devastating fire that destroyed their barn and milking herd in January 2013, Roosburg Farms of Athens, Ontario, is back in business, in a new facility built to please both cows and people.

“Is this just a speed bump on the road to expansion of U.S. dairy in the world market?

Maybe you’ve gotten to the point that you’ve read so many articles, been to so many seminars and heard so many different viewpoints about transition planning that you have “paralysis by analysis.”

The cream always rises – and like their cream, the Fulper family rose to the occasion on a soggy December evening in 2014, making their Christmas on-farm event sparkle.

Age: 36 Location: Lomira, Wisconsin History of your dairy in a nutshell: Christian Hill Dairy is a family-owned dairy that has been in our family for almost 100 years.

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