Organic dairy producers must follow many rules that seem to heighten the struggles every dairy faces. One of these regulations requires all organic dairy cattle to spend a minimum of 120 days each year on pasture, which in some areas can be the entire grazing season.

There are many nutrition and management factors, such as social dominance behaviors and feeding patterns, that can impact rumen pH, both positively and negatively. 

My own struggles with internet began during the pandemic. We live in a rural area in Idaho. Our county is the No. 20 dairy county in the U.S. and cows outnumber people 6 to 1 where I live.

Sorting the mail, eating lunch, scrolling through Facebook – these daily events can take about 15 minutes. And that’s all it takes to perform a few key assessments to help ensure your milking robot is operating at the highest level.

When I think about what it means to be a modern-day farm chick, I think about all the women in agriculture who wear so many different hats. Today’s farm women are more than farmers, more than mothers and more than someone’s employee.

Strong demand and higher prices over the past year have created growth and change for the world’s largest dairy companies, according to an annual report from Rabobank.