With a theme of “Dialing It In,” the 2025 Professional Dairy Producers (PDP) Business Conference drew inspiration from the steady movement of a sundial to encourage dairy producers to align their efforts with purpose and intention. In the opening session, three experts in the fields of geopolitics, markets and weather joined together to help dairy producers see the forces behind the unpredictable parts of agriculture.

Meet Tara Bohnert, performance specialist with CowManager.

Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) regional uniform milk prices fell in March compared to February, a trend likely to continue.

At Penn State Extension’s Women in Dairy Conference held on Nov. 19, Joanna Shipp, a seventh-generation dairy farmer from Virginia and chair of the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board, reflected on what the next 20 years of dairy could look like in the U.S.

HPAI has left the dairy industry scrambling for treatment, fast-tracking vaccines, developing containment strategies, implementing biosecurity protocols and reassuring the public that dairy products are not the source of a potential foodborne public health crisis. 

The U.S. milk production per capita for 2024 was 664.1 pounds, down 7.8 pounds (-1.2%) compared with 2023.