Editor's note: The CEO Corner contains editors' compilations of business news from top publications, which they have tailored for the dairy industry. In 2015, Sheryl Sandberg suffered a devastating loss when her husband was felled by a cardiac condition as the couple was vacationing in Mexico. Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, and Wharton Professor Adam Grant recently sat down with Harvard Business Review to discuss resilience.

If you’ve been away from “home” for a while, a return trip for a graduation party or summer vacation may reveal your neighborhood has changed. The same can be said for the U.S. dairy landscape, where Incremental changes aren’t always noticeable, but snapshots in time might paint a different picture.

Farm fatalities from toxic manure fumes occur every year. Some appear in the news; some do not – but each one is a heart-wrenching loss for the family and friends the victims leave behind.

Intense genetic selection can have an unintended side effect – the loss of genetic diversity.

It was an accident that began one farm’s journey to direct sales of raw milk and processed dairy products. After dairy farmer Layne Klein was injured and sold the milking herd, he and wife, Beth, decided to try a different mode of dairy farming – selling products directly to customers.

Pooling requirements are a main point of disagreement in comments submitted on a proposed California Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) likely headed for a vote later this year.

Dairy Marketing Services (DMS), the marketing arm of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), has given about 225 independent milk producers in its Mideast Area until Nov. 30, 2017 to decide on their future milk marketing options.

State milk regulators have requested the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) help enforce the proper use of milk and milk product labeling terms, especially those meant to distinguish between real dairy and plant-based products. That battle may have gained additional support with the release of a new study of dairy and alternative protein sources.

While drought concerns in many milk production areas of the U.S. have been reduced, the long-term need to conserve water has not. Joseph Harner, biological and agricultural engineer at Kansas State University, discussed potential targets for dairy farm water conservation efforts during the 2017 Western Dairy Management Conference, Feb. 28 to March 2 in Reno, Nevada.

An unplanned catastrophe can strike a dairy of any size at any time. A tornado or fire could level facilities and kill livestock in a matter of minutes.