Dairy policy leaders looking to bolster the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) as a federal dairy safety net may find skeptics in Wisconsin.

Weaker dairy product prices led to a decline in the October all-milk price. However, with income margins still above trigger levels, there will be no Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) indemnity payments for the September-October pay period. Replacement and cull cow prices continued to drop.

I pulled up to the dairy and parked in my usual spot. I got out and fumbled around as I put my 7-week-old into the stroller. My husband was combining soybeans in the field next to the barn, so we began to stroll around as we watched the cloud of dust rolling behind the machine with the most beautiful orange sky in the background.

I have a love-hate relationship with the word “millennial.” I love being a millennial for the positive connotations, but I hate the negative stereotypes that seem to come along with it.

I love no-bake cookies, and I love caramel! I mean who doesn’t, right? These cookies take only a few minutes to make, and they seem to disappear about as fast as it takes to throw them together.

Regional land values are a mixed bag, but unless there’s a fourth-quarter comeback, Federal Reserve bankers have widespread farm income and credit worries.

Record-high commodity stocks, China and currency value fluctuations are wildcards in determining the global agricultural economy in 2017, with dairy standing as one potential beneficiary, according to a global agricultural outlook from Rabobank.

In a dairy herd, efficiency and profitability can be achieved or lost depending on the successful balance between production and reproduction. Better reproductive performance benefits the herd directly by decreasing the days open and the average days in milk (DIM), placing cows closer to peak than to late lactation in their curve, and consequently producing more milk per cow per day.

Marcia Itle O’Connor stands today with one foot in her family’s fourth-generation Pennsylvania dairy farm and one foot in the dairy sales industry. As a young professional, she is building on proud traditions while carving out her own future success.

Thanks to technology, we can talk to each other any time and pretty much anywhere, but what good does that do? Have you ever stopped to think about the difference between communicating with someone and just speaking at them? I didn’t – or at least I didn’t realize how big that difference is until recently.