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Secretary of Ag Sonny Perdue ruffled some farmer feathers this week with a remark about the future of small dairies. John Phipps provides his take in John’s World.

Robert Marshall is one of the creators of Mizzou’s Tiger Stripe ice cream, a treasured treat created in 1989, but the science behind the ice cream is what makes the flavor so rare.

The accelerated milk replacer provides about twice as much dry matter per calf per day as traditional replacers.

Titled the “Seeding Rural Resilience Act,” the bill’s aim is to curb the rising rate of farmer suicides in America.

Four fifths of Holstein calves born in 2018 now fall in the moderate to high category, which is 6.25 to 12.5%

The production history can be increased up to 5 million pounds.

Weight at calving not only determines first-lactation performance, it sets in stone lifetime performance.

The new requirements take effect January 1, 2020.

The key is good records, and then knowing what it is costing you to raise feed.

The vote to oust Gov. Tony Evers’ Cabinet secretary was the latest in a series of skirmishes between the governor and the GOP that comes as Wisconsin is losing dairy farmers at a record pace.