On Oct. 22, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved legislation allowing states to increase truck weights so that milk is shipped as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

On Oct. 21, Joanna Lidback, a dairy farmer from Westmore, Vermont, told a panel of senators on Capitol Hill how important biotechnology is to her family’s farm, explaining that the efficiencies of using biotech crops help sustain the business she and her husband own.

The makers of the Handy Camel (similar to a large chip clip that can be used for feed and other oversized bags like soil) recently released a new product, the Renegade Broom.

While the U.S. has reduced support mechanisms for dairy farmers in recent years, a wide range of foreign dairy subsidies remain, limiting the U.S. industry’s ability to sell more of its products overseas, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) said yesterday.

On Oct. 15, forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center issued the U.S. winter outlook, which favors cooler and wetter weather in Southern Tier states with above-average temperatures most likely in the West and across the Northern Tier.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) sat down with members of the American Dairy Coalition (ADC) to discuss the current and future status of federal policies that impact dairymen, including immigration and water.

Ration dietary cation-anion difference, or DCAD, and dairy cow health and performance are closely intertwined. Still, the concept of DCAD isn’t always well understood, which can lead to dairies failing to obtain the best possible results from their nutrition program.

We came to the end of an era, as they say, on our farm last week. Mollie, our old faithful dog, passed away at the age of nearly 16 years. We got her on our oldest daughter Susanna’s 19th birthday in November 1999. When you think of the fact that we have lived here for 30 years, her life spanned more than half that time. While less than perfect as far as even dogs go, she was still a fixture here, and a lot of stories could be told about her.

Yesterday, the dairy industry said it is critical that Congress solve the trade dispute over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) to head off damaging new tariffs on U.S. dairy exports by Canada and Mexico.

High-producing dairy cows like consistency, but more importantly, the microbiome in the digestive tract of a high-producing dairy cow likes consistency!