USDA’s September World Ag Supply & Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports indicate a slight backslide from improving dairy price and cost trends.

The Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program announced on Sept. 12 that it is teaming up with Merck Animal Health to offer a series of informational webinars as part of the FARM Version 3.0 rollout. This webinar series will further build upon the strong partnership between the Merck Dairy Care365 Program and the FARM Program that was established last year.

For 23-year-old Jenna Langer, spending each day working one-on-one with elite cows is a dream come true, and a well-designed facility makes it possible for that dream to be a reality.

U.S. farmers received about 17.4 cents for every $1 spent by consumers at the retail level. Dairy margins held relatively steady over the last half of August. California's October 2016 Class 1 minimum milk prices slipped from a month earlier, but remain higher than a year ago.

With less than 2 percent of Americans directly involved in farming, it is essential to connect with consumers to help them learn how food is produced.

Dairy organizations in the U.S., Australia, the European Union, Mexico and New Zealand issued a joint letter to their respective trade and agriculture officials, urging them to challenge Canada’s dairy policies as protectionist.

Lawyers representing the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and major dairy cooperatives ended five years of litigation surrounding the “herd retirement” component of the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), agreeing to settle the lawsuit for $52 million.

More than a year ago, we began preparing for a redesign of our magazine. I would liken the process to the planning that might go into a parlor renovation or a calf barn update. There were many opinions about how it should be done and what was best.

Two recent small experiences in my life have made me realize the need to be paying attention to the disruptors that we will be facing in agriculture as we move forward producing food for the world.

Doing a feed inventory establishes your current stock of various feed ingredients. Generally, the process involves determining the volume of each feed stored and then multiplying by the stored density to yield a weight of feed.