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Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey continues to do his job for the state of Iowa, while he waits for Congress to make a move on his nomination for undersecretary.

“We looked for opportunities outside of the dairy. That’s why we started making cheese.”

Foster Brothers Farms use these key drivers to remain competitive.

Finance robotic milkers like you would a parlor.

The USDA Economic Research Service on Friday updated their net farm income forecast for 2019.

They milk and feed cows on Good-Vue Ayr Farms near Goodridge, Minnesota.

New York has seen a spike in barn fires over the past year, with another fire igniting just this week.

Building a new barn helped create more room for heifers and dry cows.

Employees are critical to successful expansions.

ATV vs. UTV: Which one could you not live without? See how dairy farmers answered.

Dairies are closing partly because of changing consumer tastes and trade tensions, but mainly because the industry is continuing a century-long consolidation.

A new rule published by the USDA will allow more flexibility for school nutrition standards for milk, whole grains and sodium.

Stalls are the often-used metric to measure overcrowding. It easy to see, measure and calculate cows per usable stall. However, it may not be the limiting factor!

In times of low milk-feed margins, optimal stocking density is often one cow per stall.

USDA posted a notice in the Federal Register yesterday, announcing it was delaying further rule-making in promulgating a Federal Milk Market Order in California.

“New” housing facilities need not necessarily start from the ground up. University of Minnesota agricultural engineer Kevin Janni discusses ways to remodel existing farm structures to address your housing needs.