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What If You Could?
Recently, I was thinking about a Client with whom I have worked for several years and, as I reviewed their financial results, I was thankful for the positive progress they had made. When I first [Read More …]
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Dr. Margaret A. Masterson Named 2026 Mentor of the Year by Merck Animal Health and the American Association of Bovine Practitioners
Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, N.J., USA (NYSE:MRK), and the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) today [Read More …]
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Cover Crops After Corn Silage
Cover crops are important after any crop, but never as important as after corn silage. Plan to drill the cover crop immediately after harvest to maximize its benefits. Cover crops are essential for sustainable annual [Read More …]
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Tennessee Celebrates Local Dairy Farm Families with New Statewide Campaign
Launches “From Our Farm to Your Family,” honoring the people and communities making an impact on local dairy industry. The Dairy Alliance, a nonprofit organization funded by dairy farm families in the Southeast, in partnership [Read More …]
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Cost of Production: The Most Important Number on Your Farm
What does it cost you to produce a bushel of corn, a hundred pounds of milk, or a pound of mushrooms? It may sound like a simple question, but the answer is one of the [Read More …]
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Capturing the Feedlot Value of Beef-on-Dairy Cattle
Key Takeaways With a historically small traditional beef herd and tight feeder cattle supplies, beef-on-dairy cattle, or dairy cows bred with beef cattle genetics, have become an increasingly important source of fed beef. Kansas State [Read More …]
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Fall Weed Control in Pastures, Hay, and Other Forages
Weed Management in Forages We are approaching an excellent time of year to manage biennial and perennial weeds, especially in grass pastures and hayfields. Biennials such as common burdock, wild carrot, and thistles (bull, musk, [Read More …]
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Featured Farm Sosnovske Family Farm Gleason, WI by Foremost Farms
On her family’s dairy farm near Gleason, WI, Mary Sosnovske doesn’t romanticize the work. She talks about it in the way that she lives it: steady, attentive and grounded in animal care. “Working with the animals [Read More …]
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Farmer Focus of Natural Milk LLC in Stanwood, WA by NMPF
Change has shaped Jeremy Visser’s life from the beginning – and it’s often opened the door to something better. “There are opportunities if you are willing to change and willing to adapt,” he said. Visser [Read More …]
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Nominations open for NMC’s Award of Excellence honor
NMC: The Global Milk Quality Organization is now accepting nominations for its 2027 Award of Excellence for Contribution to Mastitis Prevention and Control. This award honors an NMC member who has provided sustained contributions to [Read More …]
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New DairyVoice Podcast: Tim Abbott Talks Genetics With Doug Savage Of Holstein International
In this episode of DairyVoice, host Tim Abbott of Showbox Sires talks with Doug Savage, the North American Editor at Holstein International. Doug is one of the great communicators of the breeder genetics business and [Read More …]
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Agri Spray Drones Announces Next Chapter as Agricultural Drone Manufacturer and Technology Company
Agri Spray Drones (ASD) today announced its evolution from spray drone distributor to agricultural drone manufacturer and technology company, taking years of firsthand operator experience upstream into product development, quality control, software, autonomous systems and [Read More …]
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RAGER-RED Becomes First Red-and-White Sire in North America to Reach One Million Units Sold
Select Sires Inc. is proud to announce that 7HO12344 Riv-Val-Re RAGER-RED-ET has achieved a historic milestone, becoming the first Red & White sire in North America to surpass one million units of semen sold. The [Read More …]
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Neal Frerichs Receives National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Neal Frerichs of Frerichs Dairy Inc., LaGrange, Texas, as one of six recipients of the 2026 Young Jersey Breeder Award. He was honored June 18 during the 158th Annual [Read More …]
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Morian Sisters Receive National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Michelle and Rose Morian of Mish-Ro Jerseys, Atlantic, Pa., as one of six recipients of the 2026 Young Jersey Breeder Award. They were honored June 18 during the 158th [Read More …]
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Corey and Kristen Metcalf Receive National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Corey and Kristen Metcalf of Glacier Edge Dairy, Milton, Wis., as one of six recipients of the 2026 Young Jersey Breeder Award. They were honored June 18 during the [Read More …]
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Mitchell Endres and Sydney Flick Receive National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Sydney Flick and Mitchell Endres of Jazzy Jerseys in Lodi, Wis., as one of this year’s six Young Jersey Breeder Award winners. They were recognized by the USJersey organization [Read More …]
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Tommy Allen Received National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Tommy Allen of All-Lynn Jersey in Reedsburg, Wis., as one of this year’s six Young Jersey Breeder Award winners. He was honored by the association on June 18 at [Read More …]
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Brent Rocha Received National Young Jersey Breeder Award
The American Jersey Cattle Association named Brent Rocha of R&R Dairy/Pacific Edge in Tillamook, Ore., as one of this year’s six Young Jersey Breeder Award winners. He was awarded by the association on June [Read More …]
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VIDA | Family Part II: Family Stability and Growth While Apart
How do we keep our family relationships strong when we live far apart and everyone is changing? Living far from family is not easy. Over time, people, needs, and circumstances change. In this September [Read More …]
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Add Milk! SNAP Dairy Incentive Program Expands to Oklahoma
The Healthy Fluid Milk Incentive Project titled “Add Milk!” provides a dollar-for-dollar match to SNAP participants who purchase nutrient-dense, non-fat and low-fat (1%) milk products, including lactose-free options. A nutrition incentive program championed by [Read More …]
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Learn About Cattle Markets & Managing Beef Income Streams During Free Webinar
The Free “Protecting Your Profits” Webinar Will Take Place on September 18 at 12 p.m. EST . It has been a quiet summer for wholesale beef demand, but that could change. To hear the latest [Read More …]
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Get Your World Dairy Expo Tickets and ExpoTV Subscription Today
Whether you’re headed to Madison or watching from home, it’s time to make plans for World Dairy Expo 2026. Admission tickets and ExpoTV subscriptions are now available, giving dairy enthusiasts around the world the opportunity [Read More …]
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New Book Home on the Farm Brings Readers Inside the Everyday Life of an Iowa Farm Family
Iowa author AJ Hein uses storytelling to preserve the chores, family relationships and experiences that make growing up in dairy country unlike anywhere else. For a child growing up on a farm, agriculture isn’t an [Read More …]
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MDA Opens Applications for Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Grant
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is now accepting applications for the Agricultural Growth, Research, and Innovation (AGRI) Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Grant. The grant supports innovative on-farm research and demonstrations of practices that could help make [Read More …]
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Dairy farmers wear many hats – but there’s always room to grow
Texas dairy farmers are some of the most diverse businesspeople in the world. They have the animal husbandry and animal health skills of a veterinary technician. They understand farming and planting practices needed to grow [Read More …]
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Farm Aid 2026 to Air on CNN, SiriusXM, nugs and FarmAid.org
Breakout Artist Ty Myers Added to Annual Music and Food Festival Legendary Lineup Farm Aid’s music, food and farm festival, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26, at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia, [Read More …]
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FFAR Research Explores Novel Approach to Protect Livestock from New World Screwworm
As the Southern U.S. continues to navigate cases of New World screwworm, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the University of Notre Dame are investing $140,389 in a Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) grant to evaluate [Read More …]
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The 3 Signals Your Dairy Plant is Ready for Automation
Dairy manufacturers are under constant pressure to protect throughput, safety, and product quality while managing labor availability and tight capital budgets. For many plants, palletizing remains one of the most physically demanding, injury-prone tasks on [Read More …]
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Ohio Supreme Court rules in employee safety case on dairy farm
On August 12, the Ohio Supreme Court released its opinion Camara v. Gill Dairy, L.L.C. The majority opinion was written by Justice Brunner and joined by all of the justices, except for one section that Justice Fischer [Read More …]