The Farm Bill requires that the USDA permit forward contracting of milk as an alternative to minimum prices.

To comply with the new water quality regulation, some dairy producers in California will have to control manure production and minimize nitrogen intake and excretion in lactation animals.

One of the most important challenges that any animal faces is ensuring its daily food supply.

Swamp coolers are not as common in homes as they once were, but the same technology that cooled homes for decades can relieve your cows from the extreme heat of summer.

Heat stress is both a cow health and an economic issue wherever dairies exist in North America.

Heat stress can cost dairy producers big bucks, especially during the summer months.

Every summer, farmers prepare their dairy facilities for the negative effects of heat stress to avoid losses in milk production, feed intake and reproductive performance.

One of the most significant environmental challenges dairy farmers face each year is dealing with the summer heat and humidity and its affect on cows and milk production.

There was a time when the best way to observe cow behavior was to pull up a chair, take up residence in the barn and watch the cows.

Dairy cows perform much like world-class athletes, exerting high levels of energy for daily maintenance and to maintain high levels of production, says Dr. Joe West, University of Georgia dairy scientist.