To highlight some of the many small details that go into making a dairy successful, Dr. Brian Reed shares his conversation ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

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Argentine family farms are turning to robotic milking to modernize operations, ease the daily grind, and secure their future for the next generation.

For the family-owned Bilow Farms LLC, located in Malone, N.Y., the drive for improvement is particularly evident, where ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...

With much of the Upper Midwest processing capacity maxed out in terms of milk production, finding a new home for milk is not an easy task. Lucas Sjostrom, the executive director of Minnesota Milk ...