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USDA is now using premium and supreme hay prices from eight major dairy states in its revised formula.
Best practices from 25 pilot projects across the U.S., the European Union and Russia will be studied.
Use this advice to handle emergencies, from undercover filming and tornadoes to barn fires and animal health issues.
Chopping forage more finely can result in more consistent particle size and greater feed intakes.
A recent dairyherd.com poll revealed 64% of respondents say they would not recommend their children join the dairy industry.
The annual Cattle Inventory report from USDA is showing that herd expansion is still happening with more replacements being retained.
Trump administration looking to dismantle Canadian dairy program.
USDA’s latest milk production report showed August production at 17 billion pounds, an increase of 2 percent from 2016.
When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified back on Jan. 1, 1994, President Clinton was in the White House, Forrest Gump was talking about boxes of chocolates and World Dairy Expo had just celebrated its 25th year. Dairy exports were at roughly 3 percent of production and there was a groundswell of support for a formal supply management program to do something with the oversupply of milk.
Dairy farmers, take note: The key to turning your dairy cow into a cash cow is udder happiness.
Billionaire to spend on sugar, rice and dairy production.
Uncertainty in Washington is sending the dollar on a week of shaky trade. However, the currency found footing Wednesday as the Federal Reserve released meeting notes, signaling a June rate hike is likely.
A handful of Minnesota dairy farms that faced losing their buyer because of a trade dispute with Canada will keep the buyer after all.
Competition in yogurt, cheese market stiff as milk sales slow.
U.S. farmers and producers are on the losing end of an unfair fight.
According to Milk Magazine, Mullins Cheese is picking up eight of the dairies that were recently displaced by Grassland Dairy Products.
Nonfat dry milk futures are down 12% amid trade war concerns.
Dairy groups are demanding action from Washington after Canada made changes to its milk pricing classifications, and the move is leaving some producers with no place to sell their milk.
Farmers aren’t making money hand over fist, but most are stable at current prices.
U.S. dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market.
Consumers today have plenty of questions when it comes to the farm. Jessica Ziehm, co-owner of Tiashoke Farms in Buskirk, N.Y., specializes in giving the answers.
What’s Jim Dickrell’s take? “In the end, it is safe to say there is no one villain who is culpable for the dairy crisis. It’s also safe to say there is no one solution.”
Check out the results of the 2019 dairyherd.com poll.
The accuracy of fertility evaluation depends on properly accounting for whether a unit of sexed- or conventional semen was used.
New Hampshire dairy farms could get $2 million in relief funding.
While the stock market has been on a bullish run to close 2016, most ag commodities are feeling the pressure, but dairy has had better luck with milk contracts finishing the year on a higher note.
2016 has been full of peaks and valleys for dairy producers across the country, and entering into the final days of the year, prices are starting to look up.
Wedding trends come and go through the years. One Wisconsin family decided to capitalize on the trend and save their old dairy barn at the same time.
Few places in Pennsylvania have seen a more dramatic decline than Erie County, where the number of dairy farms fell 57 percent between 2002 and 2012, sliding from 170 to just 73.