For 2026 alone, 3,900 more cows have been culled each week on average compared to a year ago, resulting in year-to-date slaughter being 35,000 head or 7.5% higher than the year prior.

On Feb. 19, USDA announced they will be purchasing up to $263 million worth of agricultural commodities including $75 million ...

At the 2026 Southwest Nutrition Conference in Chandler, Ariz., Joao Dorea from the University of Wisconsin-Madison highlighted how artificial intelligence (AI) can help nutritionists conquer in their ...

At first glance, it appears that the nation’s dairy farmers are collectively churning out more butterfat. However, in evaluating these milk component trends, it’s important to also conduct monthly com ...

While the year started off slowly with U.S. dairy exports down 1.6% through the first five months, shipments exploded in the back half of the year, up 8% YOY between June and December.

Even if farmers follow American Veterinary Medical Association and American Association of Bovine Practitioner ...

Colostrum, housing, and vaccination protocols have improved greatly in recent decades. Yet calves still get sick. What research has shown is that each animal also has a genetic component to illness, a ...

Madison Extension, lung ultrasounds are changing how producers and veterinarians approach one of the common issues dairy producers deal with when it comes to young stock management: pneumonia.

For decades, scientists have known that bromoform can significantly reduce methane emissions from dairy cows. In research trials, it consistently lowers the amount of methane produced during normal ...

As the dairy industry transitioned into 2026, the 2025 USDA dairy statistics confirmed a trend that many have already observed: the U.S. dairy herd is expanding in both size and efficiency. This ...

Farmers with free-choice feed intake programs find themselves in a classic bind: They must deliver sufficient feed to allow each cow to eat her fill — but not so much that the refusals pile up, and ...