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How can you reward team members for good work, increase employee retention and achieve your operation’s goals? Consider implementing an incentive pay system to reward your farm employees.

Managing heifer inventories on a dairy farm is not always easy. Deciding which heifers to keep and which to sell, as well as breeding decisions, can be a challenge. Experts offer seven tips on selling surplus heifers.

Staying up late, sleeping in and hours of being cooped up inside playing PS4 and XBOX. Farm kids cannot relate to 98% of their classmates’ summer break. On a farm, the entertainment is all around us.

The lawsuit filed on July 29 in the U.S. District Court in Vermont, claims that DFA has created a market that has many sellers, but only one single buyer—a monopsony—across Vermont and in 10 other northeast states.

No longer able to support continued production, Borden Dairy Co. has announced plans to close two of its plants doors in Alabama and Mississippi on Sept. 30.

Last week, the Federal Reserve enacted another 0.75%-point interest rate increase to help combat high inflation rate. This increase in interest rates adds an additional cost that the farmer must carry.

The Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year award is sponsored by IDFA and Dairy Herd Management. Nominees will be judged on current methods as well as their positioning to meet future economic and business challenges.

Deer Run Dairy in Kewaunee, Wis. is led by the partnership of the father-son-duo, Duane and Derek Ducat, and Dale Bogart. Their hardworking efforts landed them with one of the 2022 U.S. Dairy Sustainability awards.