Progressive Dairyman recently asked a sampling of dairy farmers how bad milk prices were hurting their farm. The phone / email interview survey was conducted in March.

Sand bedding is known to be great for cow comfort and tough on equipment, especially when it comes to the moving parts and pieces of a robotic milking system, but there are a few things dairy farmers can to do minimize wear and tear.

How can universities make dairy extension more relevant? Dr. Phil Cardoso’s efforts at the University of Illinois are revolutionizing the way dairies access science.

“Land-healing agriculture” is not necessarily a common term, but that is one of the first statements Hubert (Hue) Karreman, VMD, and Suzanne Nelson Karreman use to describe their dairy operation in North Carolina.

Brooks Farms in Waupaca, Wisconsin, wanted their new milking parlor and barn to have a welcoming feeling. Zoey Brooks opens up the doors to show how they incorporated dairy heritage into the design, including old milking units transformed into lights. Also, see an innovative ventilation design in the freestall barn using high-speed/low-velocity fans.

Spring is coming. Well, we hope it is, but as I’m writing this, we are supposed to get snow today – again. I keep telling myself the warmer weather is coming. But once the warmer weather is here, we get busy. Fieldwork starts; all of those extra good weather jobs get added to the to-do list; and farm visits begin.

It is strange that two opposing holidays should collide on April 1 this year. One celebrates lies and trickery, and the other celebrates the greatest truth of all time, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Cereal grains, such as corn and barley, are included as an energy source in rations for lactating dairy cows. Cereal grains contain high concentrations of starch, a component that is almost completely and uniformly digested in the gastrointestinal tract when processed adequately.

Already the largest dairy cooperative in the U.S., leaders of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) said the organization has higher aspirations.

U.S. milk production posted another 1.8 percent increase in February, fueled primarily by year-over-year gains west of the Mississippi River. Cow numbers grew for a fourth consecutive month.