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Navigating social, environmental and economic issues facing dairy businesses in a world shifting from COVID-19 restrictions took center stage at the 2022 Dairy Sustainability Alliance® Spring Meeting, held May 18-19.
Founder and CEO of CT Wellness Co., Cheya Thousand recently spoke at the Alltech ONE Conference about how to manage stress and overcome burnout. She illustrates ways to keep your cup full to prevent stress and burnout.
Stress comes with owning and operating a farm. Dairy farmers know this well. Two dairy farmers share what changes they have made to their daily lives to help manage stress.
Producers are leaning into discussions and decisions about what their next big investment will be. Take our poll and enter in a chance to win FOUR World Dairy Expo season passes!
While feed costs have significantly increased year-over-year, leading dairy nutrition consultants says don’t shortchange feeding heifers, even if they are viewed as an expense for your dairy.
More than 40% of the milk fat produced in the United States is used to manufacture cheese, and two-thirds of the European Union’s milk production goes into cheese and butter.
A more traditional approach to feeding ration elements separately could help address concerns related to overhead costs, labor shortages, and fuel usage.
Its name sounds like something that belongs in the pages of a Dr. Seuss book. But festulolium actually is a highly useful hybrid forage grass – the result of a cross between fescue grass and ryegrass.
The most important number to review on a forage analysis is the ADF or NDF content of a forage on a dry matter basis, not crude protein.
“Dairy” farms are seeing a shift from the traditional business of selling milk and meat. Instead, farmers are leaning towards enterprises with a multitude of revenue streams.
A new insurance concept is being launched to allow dairy producers around the world to financially insure against the production losses caused by heat stress.
Earlier this week, a Borden Dairy processor informed its workers, vendors, and customers that they would be closing their doors this summer at their plant in Chembung, Ill.
Knowing the importance of advocating, the Modern-day Farm Chick toyed with the idea of starting a blog. After talking with her grandma, Annaliese Wegner started a blog and began sharing her dairy good story
Given the current high temperatures, cattle could be under heat stress. It’s important to know the signs so producers can manage and reduce livestock heat stress.
The biggest conversation in 2022 for McCarty Family Farms, LLC has been centered around finding a balance of taking care of their cattle and land and avoiding any catastrophic mistakes.
Four months have passed since Kent and Coreena Meyer opened a letter from their milk processor, Wakefern Food Corp., owner of Readington Farms, informing them they no longer would pick up their milk.
With more consumers demanding ‘on-the-go’ options, cheese has increasingly grown under the snacking category. Earlier this month, Sargento Foods signed a definitive agreement to acquire Baker Cheese Factory, Inc.
Each Memorial Day weekend, a winning tradition unfolds in the midsection of the country. At the end of the biggest motorsports event in the world, all eyes will be on the winner’s circle of the Indianapolis 500.
Milk prices have soared and producers are looking at each line of the milk check to learn just what the money maker is. The takeaway is that strong component prices easily help drive that price per hundredweight up.
The need for workers has the National Milk Producers Federation renewing its call for dairy farms to be given access to the H-2A Ag Guest Work Visa Program.
Dairy sprinklers and fans generally idle on low until summer. With an extreme heatwave across the midsection of the U.S., farmers are stepping up their cooling systems to ensure their cows are as comfortable as possible.
U.S. average diesel prices up more than 70% year-over-year. Could this push processors to slow down powder production?
This ongoing Oregon water issue has become a headache for many farmers, like Jos Poland. Less water doesn’t only mean fewer aces for his cows to graze on. It has forced Poland to sell 40% of his herd earlier this year.
John Schouten endless devotion to global bovine genetics helped earn him the honors of the 2022 Dairy Shrine Guest of Honor award. The World Wide Sires global traveler played a vital role in U.S. dairy semen exports.
Maternal colostrum is often considered nature’s “perfect food.” But does this “free” resource help calves achieve passive immunity as reliably as the guaranteed ingredients in a bag of colostrum replacer?
Learn how two Ontario dairy farmers stretch their forage acres by sandwiching rye in between regular-season no-till crops.
If walking into your heifer barn gives you replacement cost anxiety, you may have too many heifers on your hands.
The power of a mother is enormous. A mom is more than a chauffeur, a cook or someone who does the laundry. A mom shapes self-esteem and responsibility in her children and makes endless sacrifices to empower her children.
There are a lot of dynamics going beyond just the higher prices we have seen lately in the dairy market. Closely monitoring dairy culling rates, economists look at what the drivers are and where milk prices could go.
USDA announced April’s Class III price to be $24.42/cwt., the third-highest on record. With 2022 forecast showing high prices, it is of no surprise that enrollment in the USDA’s 2022 DMC program showed a decline.