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For young, technological, and progressive dairy farmers these three areas represent an exciting future.

Keeping milk equipment clean is one of the most important factors to producing quality milk. However, taking the time to make sure the wash system is working correctly is a chore producers often skip.

What’s one piece of technology that has drastically improved your operation in the past five to 10 years?

It might be time to expand tech expertise on your operation.

2020 was a year like no other. Following a year dominated by Covid-19 what can dairy farming expect moving forwards?

Data from a recent Pulse Poll shows that dairy farmers are most interested in automated milking technology.

Organic Valley is launching a pilot program that uses satellite photography to measure pasture health on its dairy farms.

Monitoring what’s happening at the pen level, rather than for individual dairy cows, is proving to be the best approach for producers with more than 1,000 cows.

Just as oil flows from wells and milk from cows, it seems that data has the potential to inform or overwhelm the producers with more information than they can comprehend. 

Although dairy producers have made leaps and bounds in the efficiency and productivity of the cow in the last five years, the facilities haven’t kept up to the high-performance athlete that today’s cow is.