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 ...

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 ...

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.

Since the alfalfa in the rest of the field didn’t show any signs of potassium deficiency, I suggested that the farmer take a composite soil sample from just the high areas, which represented about one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.