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GPS-guided auto-steering has not caught on as fast for dairy farmers as it has for their corn and soybean brethren who farm tabletop-flat prairies. But that’s changing, as pioneering dairy producers try to squeeze every advantage out of this constantly evolving technology.

Robots make calf feeding fun.

In late 2010 or early 2011, any dairy processor exporting to the European Union will need to certify that each farm that supplies milk for those exports is below 400,000 somatic cell count.

A growing number of U.S. dairy processors are expanding their exporting efforts to capture emerging opportunities abroad.

Once upon a time, all the world’s dairy suppliers wanted to sell to the U.S.

California processors require dairies to evaluate animal well-being.

Where to start when somatic cell counts exceed 400,000.

Global trade requirements directly affect U.S. dairies.

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.