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With large dairies putting on thousands of hours on a payloader annually, producers understand the importance of carving out time to review what equipment works best for their operation.

This New Holland 358 grinder/mixer sold at a central Pennsylvania auction on New Year's Day for the third highest price ever.

Use your senses and these simple tools on a routine basis to assure healthy milking practices and equipment.

Providing concentrate to cows in box robots offers challenges and opportunities to optimize production.

The timing of unit removal is important in harvesting the most milk possible while managing teat health.

Cows are creatures of habit, so keep it consistent inside the parlor.

Milk protocols should allow for adequate time to stimulate the udder and create optimal milk letdown.

April showers bring May flowers, but it can also bring mastitis and a sudden increase in somatic cell count levels.

ATV vs. UTV: Which one could you not live without? See how dairy farmers answered.

A new training center opened in Kansas City, Missouri will allow both the dairy and food industries a place to hone their technical skills.

Two U.S. Senators proposed a bipartisan bill that would allow for reform of the hours of service and Electronic Logging Device regulations while also delaying enforcement.

A spending bill not only passed $1.3 trillion in government funding, but also extended the timeline for livestock haulers to utilize electronic logging device (ELD).

Jim Salfer, a University of Minnesota dairy specialist who has looked at the records of dozens and dozens of robotic herds in the Midwest, says Green Wave Farms’ financial performance is among the better dairies.

This Minnesota dairy is proving robots can lower cost of production.

John Deere has added forage accessories to it’s Worksite Pro attachments line, including two silage defacers (AD7 and AD11), five bale spears (AB21, AB31, AB32, AB42 and AB43) and a bale hugger (AH80).