Managing transition cows, feed efficiency, breeding decisions and automation were major topics of interest in 2025. As we look back on the best 25 articles over the past year, we reached out to several of the subjects and authors to ask a follow-up question. Here are the responses we received.

Shortly after Christmas one year, we had our insurance agent into our home. When Jim went into our living room, he saw our Christmas tree in the corner all decorated. 

Outside my window, the world is a glorious panorama of color. The leaves flutter red, yellow and orange in the breeze.

One blizzardy night nearly two decades ago left sixth-generation dairy farmer Sara Bremer Hewitt stranded in town. Seventeen years later, that spontaneous shopping trip has grown from a small yard display into a magical half-mile drive-through Christmas experience at Bremer Farms in Hastings, Minnesota.

The ultimate gift of the farm journal is to remind us that we’re all in this thing called farming together. Thanks to the work of Progressive Dairy and the magazines that have come before it, thousands of farmers have a better understanding of what they do, one writer got his start, and some families out there never had a bare kitchen table.

Last Christmas, Randy and Chelsea DuVall wanted to give their daughter, Harper, a gift that reflected their shared passion showing dairy cattle, would last longer than any toy and be more personal than a store-bought present.