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Producers are finding health advantages to placing newborn calves in a warm environment where they can be quickly dried and cared for during their first few hours.

The Heintz Badger Valley Farm, Caledonia, Minn., was named 2015 Producer of the year during Minnesota Milk Producer Association’s annual conference last week in St. Cloud.

A PepsiCo spokesman says the company and its German partner are ending production at a western New York yogurt plant opened with much fanfare and state money in 2013.

Farmers in the Tillamook and Nehalem Valleys of coastal Oregon dealt with high waters this week as heavy rains, winds, and flooding rivers forced some farms to evacuate livestock.

A poll done by Dairy Today finds a majority of producers don’t agree with NMPF’s tail docking ban.

Keeping the udder gates well-defended against intruders.

Rumor in farm country is that bull calf prices are falling. Have yours?

Higher milk prices and lower feed costs resulted in positive economic returns for Illinois dairy producers in 2014, according to figures summarized by University of Illinois agricultural economists in cooperation with the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management Association.

Passing of U.S. Spending bill prevents retaliatory tariffs on dairy.

Threats from radicalized animal rights and environmental groups might be of greater concern than international terrorists, says this FBI veterinarian.