The global dairy sector came together to celebrate World Milk Day 2022 by conducting social media campaigns and in-person events throughout 113 countries around the world. 

Rising temperatures in summer months are challenging for highly productive cows, and this is exacerbated if feed is unstable, heating and spoiling during feeding. Not only do hot cows hate hot feed, but hot feed is spoiling, becoming increasingly contaminated with “bad actor” microbes, which ultimately depresses intake, performance and profitability.

What started as a way to distribute extra milk during the hot months of summer by grocery organizations sponsoring milk, June became the official “dairy month” that is still celebrated today.

I have reached the ripe old age where my stories sound like trudging through knee-deep snow uphill both ways, but back in the old days, life was hard. 

I am fortunate enough to have been blessed to know my grandparents.On both sides, they are people who left war-torn Europe in search of a continent that didn’t start world wars every 40 years.

On March 9, 2022, Jeff Corle watched his herd of Guernseys leave in a truck headed towards someone else’s farm.

As we look at the news stories coming in from around the world, we must admit things don’t look good.

In 2017, we wanted to get more active on social media. The goal was to be able to connect with our neighbors; more than anything, we wanted a landing page for them to go to to learn about us or be able to reach out to us.

The USDA established an Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program (ODMAP) designed to help mitigate milk market volatility, higher input and transportation costs, and unstable feed supply and prices.