Dairy Herd
Farmers aren’t making money hand over fist, but most are stable at current prices.
Producers have been tested with milk prices falling below breakeven levels.
U.S. dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market.
Consumers today have plenty of questions when it comes to the farm. Jessica Ziehm, co-owner of Tiashoke Farms in Buskirk, N.Y., specializes in giving the answers.
An Idaho conservation group has filed a complaint to several state agencies asking officials to inspect a wastewater pit used by a Nampa cheese-making plant.
Canada’s ambassador to Washington said Tuesday night that President Donald Trump is wrong when he says Canada’s trade practices in the dairy industry are “very unfair.”
Producers need strong export demand to keep U.S. milk prices steady
Greek yogurt passed General Mills’ top brand in popularity.
Turkey Protests Dutch Government by Returning 40 Holstein Cows
In butter-loving Wisconsin, a ban on Irish butter has sparked a fight.
Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm. Now the man from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught congressional investigations in recent memory.
A small, all-natural dairy isn’t being deceptive when it calls it’s skim milk “skim milk,” a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a victory for the creamery that’s fighting the state’s demand to label the product “imitation” because vitamins aren’t added to it.
As far as staples go, dairy is pretty central to the American diet. After all, knowing the cost of a gallon of milk remains a campaign-trail test for whether a politician is out of touch. Dairy farmers, though, have fallen on hard times, as milk sales continue to decline.
There’s been a lot of talk about renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and a new trade barrier between the U.S. and the Canadian dairy industry is likely to find its way to the surface, and soon.
CEO Scozzafava open to deals to diversify as milk volume drops.
A planned dairy farm in Hawaii has taken a step back by withdrawing parts of its application to allow more time for discussion of its likely environmental impact.
The robotic milking system at the farm has three stations, and milks the herd of 160 cows on average three times per day.
Check out the results of the 2019 dairyherd.com poll.
WESTBY, Wis. (AP) — Ryan Dunnum had tears in his eyes as he looked over the empty milking parlor that he built. It hadn’t been used since
The Newton County, Indiana Sheriff’s Office announced it has arrested one of three men charged following accusations of animal abuse at the nation’s largest dairy farm.
What’s Jim Dickrell’s take? “In the end, it is safe to say there is no one villain who is culpable for the dairy crisis. It’s also safe to say there is no one solution.”
Fewer hogs eating whey components in China is hurting demand as prices for whey and its components have plunged this year.
The accuracy of fertility evaluation depends on properly accounting for whether a unit of sexed- or conventional semen was used.
Dannon announced earlier this year it will be phasing out GMO ingredients from all of its products over the next three years. That’s all well and good, say six prominent farming organizations – just don’t claim doing so will improve sustainability.
Penn State Extension agricultural engineer Dan McFarland shares his thoughts on the key elements to successfully house heifers after weaning.
The physical and emotional toll of these circumstances are feeding a growing incidence of depression and anxiety among farmers, as evidenced in the results of a poll commissioned by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Sorghum has a number of properties that make it a desirable dairy feedstuff, particularly for growing heifer rations.
University of Florida researcher Geoffrey Dahl shares how the detriments of in-utero heat stress impact the productivity of heifer calves for generations.
It’s been more than a year of sustained low milk prices. For small farms like Sugar Hill Dairy, a first-generation operation started 15 years ago in Kersey, Colo., that means difficult choices.