Fairlife’s latest expansion will add capacity for 4 million more pounds of milk each day, increasing demand for milk from Michigan dairy farms.

Harvest moves fast, but slowing down to focus on packing can pay off by protecting feed quality and reducing losses throughout the year.

At Riverview’s five-state dairy operation, ‘Be Kind’ isn’t just painted on the walls — it’s a safety protocol, a business strategy and the reason 26 interns came for the cows but stayed for the people.

New thinking on forage particle size suggests the goal isn’t simply getting cows to chew more. It’s helping them spend more time where rumen health may benefit most: lying down.

At Bomaz Farms, higher corn silage chop heights are turning heads in the field. But for the Zwald family, it’s a carefully managed forage strategy built around balancing tonnage with high-quality feed.

As the U.S. dairy industry races toward fewer than 20,000 farms by decade’s end, the economics of overhead, the psychology of scale and the power dynamics of vertical integration are rewriting the rules of who survives — and who thrives.