Dairy - General
Incidence of diseases like tar spot can be mitigated during the growing season by employing field management practices and timely applying fungicide.
Quality corn silage begins with fertile soil as its foundation. Monitoring nutrients by completing soil tests and following up with nitrogen application when needed helps Chaffin establish a baseline for planting.
April showers bring May flowers, but it can also bring mastitis and a sudden increase in somatic cell count levels.
As dairy producers closely watch the markets, including milk fat paid to dairy farmers hitting a new record level, many question how they can capitalize on record butterfat levels and increase their bottom line.
The National Dairy Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program has recently launched its open comment survey for the FARM Animal Care Program’s drafted Version 5 standards updates.
The USDA is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity. Several businesses within the dairy sector will receive these grants.
Brett Reinford says that most incidents on the farm, even the accident he had, are entirely preventable. With National Farm Safety and Health Week soon starting, a series of farm safety videos are now available.
The terms profitability and cash flow are often used interchangeably. However, confusion between the two can cause producers to make decisions that are not in their best long-term profit interests.
At least 20 emergency vehicles were on site at a newly constructed dairy farm Monday afternoon after a dairy building collapsed north of Watertown, S.D.
Grain shipments on some railroads could stop as early as Wednesday, two days ahead of a possible rail strike. A rail stoppage is growing more likely as the country’s main rail unions remain at odds with rail companies.
Whether we are using cameras and security systems or phones and computers, data is everywhere. During a recent PDPW Dairy Signal broadcast, Toby Cherny outlines the importance of keeping your farm data safe.
Members of the Grow NY Farms Coalition explained how the Farm Laborers Wage Board report downplays important testimony and data from workers, farmers and researchers from Cornell University.
The stress of owning and operating a dairy farm is enormous. And, as harvest nears, additional stress looms for many farmers. OSHA is urging employers to actively promote available resources to all workers.
Compared to a year ago, dairy product values are up considerably. Unfortunately, feed costs continue to surge upward as well.
With busy season ramping up for farmers across the country, now’s a good time to revisit some strategies to help manage stress as your workload picks up.
Implementing a new technology can be both exciting and scary.
From bovines to BMWs, the vision of Bar 20 Dairy is to simply do more with less.
Get to know your employees as people beyond what they bring to work.
Always looking for the next opportunity, Kutz Dairy is positioned for growth. With the technologies currently in place on the Wisconsin dairy, Allan Kutz believes the next steps of growth will be easier.
While Lung Ultrasound is the cornerstone of any good Calf Herd Health Program, there are many other benefits to getting your herd vet in your calf barn on a regular basis.
If it’s possible to have a global milk production recession, that is, back-to-back quarterly year-over-year decreases in milk production in the key export regions – then we’ve been in one since Q1 2022.
Rain was not the main headline when a powerful storm blew through Rutland County. The intense wind certainly was. The severe thunderstorm brought down powerlines and forced an old dairy barn to collapse, trapping cows.
As a business owner, running a dairy farm is nonstop and it is difficult to draw a dividing line that separates work life and personal life. Our lives are simply not an 8-5 job.
The creators of the iconic got milk? brand, the CMPB wants everyone to get real and is launching the Get Real campaign to promote the benefits of being real in all aspects of life, including drinking real milk.
Oregon dairy farmers are being a target once again. This time a group of environmental, public health and animal welfare petitioned Oregon regulators to approve new rules targeting air pollution from large-scale dairies.
Grayhouse Farms’ decision to build a new dairy was not one that was taken lightly. Brothers Jimmy and Andy Gray built a brand-new dairy five years ago with conservation and efficiency in mind.
Over the weekend, monsoon storms came through Arizona. A huge concern facing farmers in the western part of the U.S. is water scarcity, so it’s easy to understand why Arizona dairy farmer Casey Dugan welcomed the rain.
Manure has tremendous nutritive value, but only if it is available to the crop and that crop is efficient at taking up those nutrients
California dairy farmer, Steve Maddox found a newfound love for Amazon Prime, who hauled premium alfalfa dairy hay from his Logan, Utah hay ranch to his Riverdale, Calif. dairy farm.
The On-Farm Milk Storage & Handling Grant provides grants for dairy farmers to access funds that support the purchase of equipment and other related costs that will improve milk storage, handling and energy efficiencies.