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Mercer Vu Dairy wanted to utilize group housing and waste milk to raise their preweaned calves with round-the-clock access to milk. Here’s how they came up with their own one-of-a-kind system.

These commonly overlooked issues are holding your herd back.

John Deere and DeLaval have joined efforts to create the Milk Sustainability Center (MSC), a digital ecosystem to help dairy farmers improve the efficiency and sustainability of their operations.

Nearly two years after close to 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike over a labor dispute, the company is indefinitely laying off 225 jobs from its Harvester Works location in October.

The unique growing conditions of the 2023 crop year have a lot of dairy producers on edge about the quality and safety of their new-crop corn silage. But the experts advise that there’s probably little need to panic.

Many of us are in the fast lane with kids graduating and we’re getting a lesson on just how fast time goes. Thank your children for all the help they do on the farm and start thinking about who their replacement will be.

The University of Missouri became the first college to land an electric autonomous tractor, a tool that will drive teaching and research into the future.

Working with family can be both challenging and rewarding. However, tensions can build if clearly defined roles and responsibilities are not established for each person. The good news is there are ways to navigate.

Seasonal buying is taking place, but sellers continue to offer product on the spot market leaving buyers unaggressive.

The Tauers’ workforce is different than most. They work with the University of Minnesota through their training program as a host farm for foreign interns, who work with the family for six months to a year at a time.