The starting point for a farm's sustainability road map is hoof health. If a cow isn’t comfortable moving, her ability to eat, produce and stay in the herd longer is compromised. No matter your sustainability goals, strong hoof health supports every step along the way.

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Sometimes lessons come to us in the strangest ways.

For Caitlin Leline Hatch, agriculture and art are not separate pursuits but are deeply intertwined. Hatch helps manage a unique seasonal grazing dairy while also building a successful career as an artist whose work celebrates rural life, agriculture and Western culture.

For 250 years, the freedom ship of America has sailed unscathed over the murky shark-infested waters of the world. This proverbial ship had her beginnings long before the Founding Fathers took pen in hand to write the immortal Declaration of Independence.

I ate a lot of fries in my childhood, but only because I ate a lot of hamburgers. It sounds like the dream diet for a child, except that there’s a difference in taste between burgers and fries that are baked as opposed to deep fried.

Dairies are paid on components, yet most manage production by the pound. That gap – between how milk is valued and how it’s managed – is one of the clearest opportunities on the modern dairy.

In her first year of dairy consulting, Emory Bewley learned the classroom and the farm are two different forms of education. This gap is something most young dairy professionals often face – technical knowledge sets the foundation, but everything else is learned on the farm.