Dairy - General
With the drive to become carbon neutral by 2050, America’s dairy farms bring more than milk to the market. They are looking to exchange carbon credits for dollars. Caballero Dairy will soon be in this market space.
Progesterone is key to maintaining a healthy pregnancy.
Reclaimed sand and recycled manure solids help farmers lower bedding costs. When bedding meets quality thresholds, farms that use recycled bedding produce the same quality of milk as those that use fresh bedding.
Making a big investment on a farm takes a lot of consideration. Often, owners meet with outside team members to help brainstorm and think through this process. The same holds true when producers look to purchase robots.
Angered at New Zealand for its comments on Taiwan, Beijing looks elsewhere to fill whole milk powder needs.
Dairy farms are a hustling and bustling place. Last year, the Berning family in Illinois opened their dairy farm barn doors and offer Farm Camp for kids of all ages. Camp includes farm chores, scavenger hunts and more.
The workplace trend, quiet quitting, has gotten a lot of attention lately. Instead of going above and beyond, employees are wanting more from their work-life balance. The question is how do you keep employees motivated?
Wearing the crown and title of Princess Kay of the Milky Way has been a dream for Anna Euerle ever since she was little. Euerle followed around her two older sisters to county dairy princesses’ events.
More than 100 school districts throughout Alabama are scrambling to find a new milk supplier for school lunch programs after Borden Dairy Co. announced its plans to close two of its southern plants.
While dishing up meals in Styrofoam to-go containers happens simultaneously with the roar of a diesel tractor, signing its harvest season, some farm families go with plan B.
The Schlangens employ more than 30 conservation practices over time, including cover cropping, establishing buffer strips and variable rate fertilization. They are also a recipient of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Award.
A big opportunity for forward-thinking, elite businesses is to attend the 20th Anniversary of the Milk Business Conference at the Paris Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas December 13-15, 2022.
A headache for most managers is putting together an employee work schedule. Trying to be considerate, but also properly putting a schedule together that aids in the farm’s mission statement is easier said than done.
In Iowa’s capitol, the 69th Iowa Dairy Princess was crowned. The 2022-23 Iowa goodwill ambassador is Naomi Scott from Westgate, who will connect with consumers all year long, promoting dairy.
Pizza Hut and its parent company Yum! Brands are partnering with DFA and dairy suppliers to provide participating farmers with the technology and data needed to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
An often-over-looked expense is having excess corn silage inventory. The decision has to be made soon, when you are chopping—to sell it or use it on the farm.
Without proper cleaning and sanitation of feeding equipment, disease and illness can quickly spread among calves.
It’s not too late to double-crop a cool-season forage seeding onto available land to capture some more feed tonnage and/or establish a winter cover crop.
Dairy farmers pray that roads stay open and power stays on as winds from thunderstorms aggravated the McKinney fire in Northern California, burning more than 60,000 acres as of Sunday evening, according to InciWeb.
Managing heifer inventories on a dairy farm is not always easy. Deciding which heifers to keep and which to sell, as well as breeding decisions, can be a challenge. Experts offer seven tips on selling surplus heifers.
Staying up late, sleeping in and hours of being cooped up inside playing PS4 and XBOX. Farm kids cannot relate to 98% of their classmates’ summer break. On a farm, the entertainment is all around us.
The lawsuit filed on July 29 in the U.S. District Court in Vermont, claims that DFA has created a market that has many sellers, but only one single buyer—a monopsony—across Vermont and in 10 other northeast states.
No longer able to support continued production, Borden Dairy Co. has announced plans to close two of its plants doors in Alabama and Mississippi on Sept. 30.
Last week, the Federal Reserve enacted another 0.75%-point interest rate increase to help combat high inflation rate. This increase in interest rates adds an additional cost that the farmer must carry.
The Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year award is sponsored by IDFA and Dairy Herd Management. Nominees will be judged on current methods as well as their positioning to meet future economic and business challenges.
Deer Run Dairy in Kewaunee, Wis. is led by the partnership of the father-son-duo, Duane and Derek Ducat, and Dale Bogart. Their hardworking efforts landed them with one of the 2022 U.S. Dairy Sustainability awards.
Are you a silage-making pro? Even veteran silage growers will want to read Dr. Donna Amaral-Phillips’ tips and tricks to help make the most out of this year’s corn silage crop.
Acquisition further expands DFA’s ownership in extended shelf-life processing.
The Mega Millions jackpot has hit its second-highest amount ever at $1.1 Billion. Most farmers wouldn’t have to think twice about how they’d start spinning the Mega Millions jackpot if they won.
Learning by doing is the mantra for a lot of dairy farmers and Walter Graves is no exception. Graves was recently awarded a Young Jersey Breeder Award from the American Jersey Cattle Association.