On October 28, 2015, the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB) honored Bill Ahlem and Joe Bavido as the 2015 recipients of the Richard E. Lyng Award for their extensive contributions and distinguished service to dairy promotion. 

I started a project recently that has me thinking about legacy. My legacy. Your legacy, too. 

Thanksgiving is a time for reflection. Warm memories, overstuffed afternoons and family. Yet rising from this cornucopia of good feelings, like a rubber chicken from a shopping cart full of cut-up fryers, is that runner-up for national bird ... the turkey.

Wet weather in the nation’s leading cotton-producing state, Texas, is expected to trim cotton production. The nation’s crop took an additional hit when torrential rains hit the Carolinas just prior to harvest, decimating a significant portion of that region’s 2015 cotton crop.

Ruth Klossner's cow collection has earned her a well-deserved spot in Guinness World Records, surpassing the last record holder from Australia by nearly 13,000 cow items.

A new program poised to reduce poverty for farmers in Tanzania and Ethiopia by increasing the productivity of dairy cows has just been awarded to the Land O'Lakes International Development Fund (Land O'Lakes IDF) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

People across the world collect an array of memorabilia: spoons, shot glasses, Beanie Babies, random knickknacks of sentimental value; the list goes on.

Michelle WieghartDairy Technical Service ManagerKeminBeldenville, Wisconsin

It’s no secret. Farming requires a great deal of time, energy, know-how and heavy lifting. Who knew it could all be done in a gingham dress?

On Nov. 16, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced 53 grants totaling more than $18 million to support research, teaching and extension activities at 1890 historically black land-grant colleges and universities through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).