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The incidence of transition-cow diseases has budged little, and these maladies – mastitis, metritis, retained placenta, and poor fertility – continue to make up about 75% of all mature dairy cow diseases.

The USDA has extended the program to allow all schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to students. This is also helping eat into U.S. dairy supplies.

The busyness of the summer season is finally over, but it has some producers staring out into their fields wondering what they need to do to help stretch their feed inventories throughout the fall and winter.

Teamwork – on a dairy or anywhere else – requires trust, so every team member feels valued and compelled to contribute their best effort.

Under today’s U.S. dairy supply system, relatively small changes in supply generate relatively large changes in prices.

Herrington Farms, Inc. of Troy, NY was named the overall winner of the 2021 World Forage Analysis Superbowl at the 2021 World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.

Is lowering the age at first breeding still on the industry’s genetic wish list?