The National Dairy Producers Organization (NDPO) will offer members financial incentives to improve milk quality, according to Mike Eby, the organization’s board chairman.

Who doesn’t love summer time on the farm? Early mornings and late nights, bonfires and whippoorwills and county fairs. If we all think back, most of our best memories involve green grass and blue skies, rather than snow and wind and cold.

Emily and Jay Montgomery came home to Highland Farm, operated today by Emily’s father and brother, William and Zack Bryant, in 2006. The farm, located in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, has been in the family for seven generations.

Dairy operations can feed cows economically with high-forage diets using corn silage as the sole source of forage. Whether you are feeding a high-corn silage ration today or are considering it in the future, producers should consider several management factors when feeding high rates of corn silage.

I recently had the privilege to attend LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco, an event for technology startups, and I came away with some new ideas and views on how to attack problems that I myself and the dairy industry face.

USDA’s monthly World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report made another cut to the 2017 U.S. milk production forecast, with a slowdown in the growth of milk per cow. Despite the reduction, USDA narrowed projected 2017 milk and dairy product prices, adjusting overall prices down slightly.

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The first annual Indiana Dairy Forum, held in historic French Lick on Feb. 1-2, kicked off with an interactive, hands-on presentation to improve parlor function and milk quality featuring a milking system simulation, “Understanding Your Parlor’s Function,” by Dr. Roger Thomson from Battle Creek, Michigan.

U.S. public schools will get greater leeway in meeting meal program nutritional requirements, and students will get more flavorful dairy options as a result of a USDA proclamation and the recently signed federal spending bill.

A court ruling concerning “hazardous substance” emissions has removed reporting requirement exemptions for some livestock farms and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). However, what happens next is still up in the air, according to Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, assistant professor and Extension agricultural law specialist with Texas A&M Agrilife Extension.