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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue conducted a series of meetings with Canadian officials on June 5. Among other issues, Perdue raised the topic of U.S.-produced ultra-filtered milk and Canadian dairy ingredient pricing policy that has been a point of disagreement between the two countries.

June Dairy Month activities are well underway, but dairy producers will have to wait a little longer to celebrate a milk price improvement. Students are headed for summer vacation, so demand for fluid milk will be tested. With heat stress imminent, milk production will trend downward.

With three rambunctious boys, I’m thanking my lucky stars (and knocking on wood) that we’ve had relatively few serious illnesses or injuries. It was just a few weeks ago when Cooper burned his little toes and I found myself wondering if this was the accident that finally sent us to urgent care.

A couple of years ago, Al and Sue Mensen spent a lot of their time milking cows. They were milking 110 cows in a 70-cow tiestall barn. The overflow cows were housed in a freestall barn and ushered to the milking barn twice a day, every day.

If you follow me on social media at all, you probably know that I am basically obsessed with my dog. I love dogs in general, but my dog, Cash, is just the best.

Every day, dairy farmers go to great lengths to care for their cows. In this series from Dairy MAX, Tara Vander Dussen of New Mexico shares her story about caring for newborn calves during Winter Storm Goliath.

The class pet is a classic schoolroom novelty that never gets old. But why stick to something that has to fit within the small parameters of a cage or aquarium? With modern technology, the right resources and a little creative innovation, there’s no saying that a dairy cow can’t be the next class project.

U.S. dairy and policy officials are seeking domestic and international solutions to address markets for ultrafiltered (UF) milk.

Dairy farmer participation in the federal dairy income safety net program, the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy), continues to slide, based on 2017 enrollment data released by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA).