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.

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 ...

It’s largely a symbolic victory and a tongue-in-cheek rivalry; Idaho Dairymen’s Association chief executive officer Rick Naerebout told the state’s farm bureau that it is “kind of fun to have this bac ...

A farmer asked me to look at one of his alfalfa fields that had very uneven growth. This field included several high areas, and that’s where the alfalfa was stunted with some signs of yellowing. We ...

Five classes of dairy cows are featured on the covers of our January through March issues, representing five of the dairy breeds.