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Six months ago, COVID-19 wasn’t even on farmers’ radar.

Dry cows should maintain a body condition score in the range of 3.0 to 3.25.

National Dairy Shrine will provide 32 scholarships worth more than $37,500 to students this year.

Use of these unique genetic bulls could reintroduce lost genetic variation.

Don’t let this opportunity to enroll in Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) pass you by, warns Jenny Wackershauser.

Wisconsin joins USDA and California in not collecting the dairy checkoff on milk dumped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Thursday the World Dairy Expo Executive Committee reached this difficult decision based on the public health orders and restrictions related to COVID-19, in place and issued by Public Health Madison & Dane County.

Program sign-ups will begin May 26. USDA plans to begin issuing payments the first week of June.

Current projections indicate that a DMC payment is likely to trigger every month for the remainder of 2020.

Scientists plan to use an industry wide dairy survey to identify critical areas in the industry and help minimize further health issues, labor disruptions, milk supply shortages and economic risks due to the coronavirus.