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Not long ago, New York City’s mayor Eric Adams was attempting to ban chocolate milk from being served in NYC public schools. Now he is backing off this proposition and turning his attention elsewhere causing pushback.

Dairy exporters from Argentina and Uruguay are looking for new dairy markets to offset the loss of the Russian market.

The roads have been cleared and the sun is now peeking out in North Dakota after dairy farmers spent the bulk of their Easter weekend pushing snow when the storm of the century – Snowmageddon – plowed through.

Farmers are the original recyclers, and a company called repurposedMATERIALS is matching creative users with expired industrial products that otherwise would be headed for the landfill.

With the return of whole milk back into schools sailing through the House, things are looking up in Pennsylvania. If passed by the Senate, schools in the state could serve whole milk and 2% milk to students.

The challenges that farmers face can be overwhelming. Factor in Mother Nature’s wild ways, and there is only so much a farmer can do. Texas dairy farmer, John Boer worries about the outlook of his corn.

Putting up wetter forages as fermented baleage has definite feed-value and harvest-efficiency advantages. But rats and mice love baleage as much as cows do, especially if it contains grain.

In the Class III complex, May milk’s settlement price closed into new contract highs at $25.55/cwt.

Companies are wondering how they can compete with the recent announcement by Walmart, sharing that it’s upping starting annual salaries for the company’s truck drivers to around $100,000.