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Feeding waste milk to calves captures high-quality nutrients and adds value to a product that otherwise would be discarded. But recent research sheds light on concerns about the practice.

Increased fuel costs impedes movement of milk and milk components.

Excess copper can be too much of a good thing for preweaned dairy calves.

Constantly utilizing antibiotics to treat mastitis is not always a viable practice.

After three years of well-publicized drought, California has received near-normal precipitation this year.

Direct payment assistance to dairy farmers was announced at 20 cents per hundredweight, with total payments capped at $250,000 per farm operation or legal entity.

The Cattlemen’s Beef Board is soliciting comments from beef and dairy producers and industry organizations for possible improvements to the beef checkoff program.

New report shows the worldwide dairy industry’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is just 2.7%

The clock starts ticking on the EU somatic cell count limit on July 1.

Mark Wustenberg suggests simple places to check for a dairy’s source of bacteria problems in milk counts.