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Choices abound for cob collection and transport

AgriLabs introduces Colostrx 130 Colostrum Replacer, a complete replacement option for maternal colostrum.

To help dairy producers better understand Johne's disease and become acquainted with preventive measures, two online courses -- one in English, and the other in Spanish -- have been developed specifically for dairy producers.

With the cheese market in flux, and butter and powder markets in freefall, dairy producers might want to consider putting a floor under their milk prices this spring by buying put options.

Sidney Manufacturing introduces its new Gorilla Grapple, a versatile, powerful grapple designed to fit most skid steers.

Cooperatives Working Together has tentatively accepted 184 bids in its second herd retirement of 2008, and also has accepted bids for 1,548 bred heifers in this herd retirement program.

USDA agreed today not to offer any non-fat dry milk powder through an auction conducted by The Seam, a private marketing entity, after the National Milk Producers Federation sought a temporary restraining order to halt the auction.

Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted five export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese, butter, anhydrous milkfat and whole milk powder.

Feed efficiency overpowers extra energy use

Final National Guidelines Released

The National Dairy Animal Well-Being Initiative unveiled its final principles and guidelines at World Dairy Expo in October.

Shorter dry periods equal less milk?

Direct expensing limit doubles

Cross-vent barns for 600 and 3,000 cows mark opposite ends of scale

Cows like it not too hot, not too cold

A quarter-century of change, trade, conflict, struggle and prosperity for U.S. agriculture.

Zareba Systems has added four new low impedance electric fence controllers to give customers the most complete range of options available.

CLAAS introduces its new Moisture Meter to give producers an effective production management tool to ensure that their crop has reached its optimal point of harvest.

Evaporative pads provide cooling power in cross-ventilated barns

This boom-equipped service truck provides farmers a lift when machinery breaks down

Neatness counts to maximize yield on outside corn rows.

Trace amounts of melamine have been found in one U.S. brand of infant formula, Mead Johnson's Infant Formula, Enfamil LIPIL with Iron.

The CLAAS LINER family of rakes -- with a uniform, clean swath with working precision and intelligent tine control -- introduces the new LINER 750 and LINER 1750 dual rotor side discharge rakes.

Fonterra Cooperative has reduced its forecast payout by 9% for the 2008-09 season.

USDA reports are important to the dairy industry and will continue to be important to assess supply, demand, and pricing.

The California dairy industry has "a tremendous opportunity” in the China market, says Western United Dairymen CEO Michael Marsh, who's just returned from a 10-day trade mission sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board.

Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted six export assistance bids last week for the sale of butter, anhydrous milkfat and whole milk powder.

The second edition of "Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences" is now online and explains how to deal with conflicts among peers and with disputes between superiors and subordinates.

Cows don't like change.

October dairy cow slaughter slowed up a bit compared to year earlier levels, USDA reported this morning.

A global glut of cotton means that far fewer acres of cotton will be planted in 2009, squeezing what is already a tight cottonseed supply.

A global glut of cotton means that far fewer acres of cotton will be planted in 2009, squeezing what is already a tight cottonseed supply.

County officials have given the green light to a manure-to-energy distribution network that will involve up to nine dairies near Bakersfield, Calif.