Bill Christoph operates Liberty Jersey Farm, which milks about 400 Jerseys in Fallon, Nevada. Christoph recently was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for an article about the new Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) milk powder factory, also in Fallon. The article explored how Chinese demand is driving the dairy export market.

Pagel’s Ponderosa John Pagel, owner | Chris Szydel, herd manager Casco, Wisconsin Maintaining hoof health during the dry period can be a challenge on many dairies, but at Pagel’s Ponderosa, a movable, homemade stainless-steel footbath ensures that all cows are covered.

Trucks, tractors and tons of feed make harvest season a busy time on dairies – and potentially a dangerous one, too. Juan Quezada, director of safety and training at Milk Source, strives to keep employees out of harm’s way while putting up large volumes of forage. The dairy located in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, handles roughly 360,000 tons of corn silage, 130,000 tons of haylage and 50,000 tons of sorghum silage per year.

The global dairy markets, suffering from excess production and a halt in orders from China, fell to a two-year low in early August. Over the last six months, milk powder prices have fallen 25 to 35 percent while butter prices are off nearly 25 percent and cheese prices are down about 15 percent.

As many as half of all producers who use milk replacer may change the formulation of their feed or the amount they feed as the seasons change. That’s according to recent surveys conducted by Progressive Dairyman. We began asking readers a question about their milk replacer feed formulation practices back in May and continued polling readers throughout the summer. The online question was: Do you change the formulation of the milk or milk replacer fed to your calves as the seasons change?

One Sunday morning this past spring as the rain continued to fall and the sun was nowhere in sight, family, friends and peers of John Klossner trudged through the muddy grasses of the University of Wisconsin – Madison campus for the Inaugural Dairy Dash. They were headed to the philanthropic 4K race that was held in memory of John, a brother of Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) fraternity’s Madison chapter, who tragically passed away last August from a brain injury suffered at the state fair.

Time and again, statistics have demonstrated the success rate of learning languages at an early age. One Pennsylvania-based education program is adapting this strategy to help the next generation become fluent in a language not conventionally taught in the classroom – the vernacular of the dairy industry.