May’s margin was $10.41 per hundredweight (cwt), only a 1 cent decline from April’s margin and the result of movements in the all-milk price and feed costs that largely offset each other.

Most of the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) pricing revisions went into effect in June and will begin to be reflected in July milk checks. Additionally, announced changes to several risk management insurance programs will also soon impact producers’ bottom lines for those enrolling in 2026 coverage. All of this to say that now may be the right time to reevaluate risk management decisions for your dairy operation.

With advanced scientific technologies, we have been able to more specifically identify many of the key nutritional and nonnutrient components of colostrum, as well as their modes of action in the neonatal calf.

What does the future of the Pennsylvania dairy industry look like? Many young herd managers get their start through the Center for Dairy Excellence and Dairy Excellence Foundation programs, including on-farm internships, pre-apprenticeships and a Dairy Herd Manager Apprenticeship program.

The dairy industry has spent the last few decades designing barns for automated milking – resulting in hundreds of different configurations – all of which have been a variation of two robots layouts: perpendicular and tollbooth.

Dairy cull cows marketed through U.S. slaughter plants in May lowest since 2008.