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The National Dairy Shrine has selected Dr. Les Hansen as the 2023 Guest of Honor.

Since record-keeping began, U.S. annual per capita ice cream consumption has nearly doubled

Dusting off the ashes from a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged the Organic Valley’s McMinnville, Ore., 25,000-square foot main building in 2021, the cooperative has since rebuilt.

The USDA Milk Production report for April showed a 0.3% increase. Phil Plourd says that on-farm margins have deteriorated to a degree that, historically, corresponds with less milk production or at least slower growth.

Half of success is showing up certainly holds true for labor-dependent farms. Although Brett Barlass, dairy manager of Yosemite Jerseys in Calif., shares he went nine years without a no-call or a no-show employee.

According to Iowa State University’s David Verhoeven, vaccines using mRNA technology have been shown to reduce disease on farms, and it’s all but impossible for them to end up in your food.

The dairy checkoff is bringing a new approach to building trust with young Americans by helping high school curriculum writers across the country incorporate accurate science behind dairy farming.