Dairy - General
Purina Animal Nutrition gathers supply chain to discuss opportunities and challenges with beef-on-dairy segment.
The USDA recently announced that it will now offer assistance to dairy producers within the organic sector with the implementation of the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program.
The livestock production businesses of the future will need to balance much more than the bottom line.
Head to Lancaster County Pennsylvania and the sweet aroma of candy can be smelled on a family dairy farm. Red Knob Dairy has been feeding upcycled Hershey candy waste to their cows for more than a decade.
A winning tradition unfolds in the midsection of the country each Memorial Day weekend for the biggest motorsports event in the world. The Indy 500 is a tradition that Indiana dairy farmers get to help orchestrate.
Michigan Milk Producers Association and Canadian Dairy Distillery announced a joint initiative that will transform a dairy byproduct into the world’s lowest carbon-intensity ethanol.
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.
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.
Farming isn’t just an occupation—it’s a lifestyle that includes a rollercoaster of challenges, including the pressure to sustain the family farm. Understandably, many farmers suffer from mental health challenges.
Truterra LLC, the carbon farming and sustainable agriculture unit of Land O’Lakes Inc, paid U.S. farmers $5.1 million in 2022 for capturing and storing 262,000 metric tons of carbon via sustainable practices.
An Illinois farmer’s daughter, Cassie Bohnert from East Moline, made a TikTok video to promote the Cheese Pull Contest sponsored by Midwest Dairy and Illinois High School Association.
An estimated 12,000 youth were injured on farms, with 4,000 of these injuries due to farm work in 2014. Sydni Mell and her brother Sam, both who grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, understand that statistic all too well.
The ribbon has officially been cut on a new dairy processing facility located in Amarillo, Texas.
The nation’s largest research dairy is underway, as the groundwork has officially begun for the University of Idaho’s Idaho Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, better known as Idaho CAFÉ.
As I approached the site of my first animal activist rally, I kept my distance. I watched two people beside a small megaphone and a bag, checking their phones constantly. I leaned in anticipating what would happen next.
Farm moms are in the fields, milking cows, feeding calves, paying the bills and somehow still manage to put supper on the table. They are very involved in their community and show up at their kid’s school events.
Michael Swanson says we’ve likely seen the peak for food inflation last summer. What drove the 14% food inflation since the COVID pandemic has been four factors: transportation, labor, shipping and packaging.
The Coca-Cola Company has announced its plans to build a new fairlife production facility located in Webster, New York.
Recently, NMPF president and CEO, Jim Mulhern, spoke to AgriTalk’s host, Chip Flory, about federal milk marketing orders. NMPF has requested a national hearing to amend five pricing provisions under the FMMO.
With the current economic situation, both in agriculture and even personally, it is easy to feel stress and overwhelmed. Here are some suggestions on how to manage stress and work through a difficult time.
The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy unveiled some big moves in the private sector that may make it easier for dairy producers to capitalize on carbon credits to benefit both climate and their bottom lines.
While there is uncertainty ahead, there are also big opportunities for the younger generation. Dive deep into what colleges and universities offer to help you navigate your future career.
The record for most lifetime milk produced by a registered Holstein cow has been broken once again in 2023. This time by Nor-Bert Colby Connie, a 14-year-old Holstein owned by Nor-Bert Farm in Bremen, Indiana.
Raising heifers is expensive, to be sure. But in the long run, raising them right is far more important than raising them cheap.
The founder and CEO of GoodSport Nutrition, Michelle McBride shares her career path, advice, lessons learned and more in a casual sit-down conversation.
Buckingham Palace recently announced that the Coronation of His Majesty the King will take place this coming Saturday, May 6. As a result, there is an expected surge in both dairy and meat sales in the United Kingdom.