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Olivier Hiers, Larry Purdom and Steve Blessing join a board of dairy business professionals from the U.S. and Canada.

Monitor these key areas to verify how your cows are responding to their feeding program.

We should shift some of our attention from total fat to the composition of fatty acids in milk.

Feed cost is reduced $165 per day by feeding three different rations instead of one ration to all cows.

Bank’s report recommends changes in the industry to maximize milk value for state’s producers, including less reliance on milk marketing orders.

Smart phones have put powerful computing capabilities into the hands of regular people, including dairy producers.

Until recently, no one suspected potassium deficiency in lactating cows except maybe during periods of heat stress

The tighter we program diets, the more important is the information that we base the programs on.

Canola is a viable replacement for soybean meal, cottonseed meal, distillers grains or other protein supplements.

In the USA, cheese consumption has grown from 2.3 billion pounds in 1970 to nearly 10.5 billion pounds in 2011.