Vaccines are one of the best investments dairy producers can use to protect the health and profitability of a herd. A disease prevention program is often a better approach than treatment for a multitude of reasons. Treatment is costly and not always effective. Production losses often occur before diagnosis, especially when diseases exist at subclinical levels.

Hugo A. Ramírez RamírezAssistant Professor – Dairy Nutrition and ManagementIowa State UniversityAmes, Iowa

California Dairies Inc. (CDI), the largest member-owned milk marketing and processing cooperative in the state, is looking for new members and milk.

What goes up must come down! With some horsepower, careful planning and a really long chain, Collins Dairy LLC of Greenleaf, Wisconsin, took down the Harvestore silo they were no longer using to store high-moisture corn on their farm. They now place all high-moisture corn on a concrete drive-over pile. Watch what happened here.

There’s still snow on the ground, but have you started thinking about your outreach goals for this spring? And specifically, June Dairy Month? If not, you aren’t alone. That being said, it is time to start thinking. There’s nothing worse than being rushed and stressed while trying to throw something together at the last minute.

Four Western veterinarians traveled to the Dominican Republic in November to help rural dairy producers improve milk production and milk quality.

Lower U.S. soybean meal and alfalfa hay prices weren’t enough to offset lower January 2016 milk prices, squeezing dairy producers’ income under USDA’s Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) formula. 

It'll take months or longer to determine the full physical and financial impact Winter Storm Goliath had on Texas and New Mexico dairy herds, but the numbers are starting to show.

In February, the dairy farmer leadership of American Dairy Association and Dairy Council Inc., Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program voted unanimously to create American Dairy Association North East (ADANE), effective March 1.

The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today urged the full Senate to act quickly on legislation that would establish national regulations to bring consistency and transparency to the labeling of ingredients and processes used in the food supply.