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Dairy Today has covered numerous U.S. dairy digester and cap-and-trade projects in recent years. These producers tell what they’ve learned since we first featured them.

High-quality forage allows less corn in diets.

Feed prices spike your cost of production.

High feed prices are here to stay.

High prices and uncertain markets call for smart feed-purchasing decisions.

New report shows the worldwide dairy industry’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is just 2.7%

The clock starts ticking on the EU somatic cell count limit on July 1.

Mark Wustenberg suggests simple places to check for a dairy’s source of bacteria problems in milk counts.

Scarred from the volatility that has trampled the world dairy markets in the last three-and-a-half years, traders have grabbed onto Fonterra’s monthly commodity auction as a new global benchmark.

In Florida, the old joke is that farmers measure corn silage yields in tons per acre and forage sorghum yields in board feet. But new, highly digestible brown midrib (BMR) varieties of forage sorghum change all that.