The first few weeks into the New Year have been feeling more like winter with snow and temperatures in the single digits. The cows are...

In last month’s issue I introduced the concept of the whole-farm nutrient mass balance (NMB) for dairy farms as a nutrient management tool

Mastitis is one of the most prevalent and costly challenges in dairy farming, directly affecting milk production and herd health. This...

When I engage in conversations about the sustainability of the dairy industry with people at the community arts studio I frequent, I walk a

Happy new year! The new year is usually replete with an aspiration for a new beginning, and a renewed hope to continue life’s journey. A...

During the early 1920s William Miner envisioned that his Heart’s Delight Farm would “become an agricultural and research college focused...

Ever since man started breeding different varieties of crops and comparing them there’s been an effort to describe the differences...

I was talking to a dairy farmer who had recently purchased boluses he was planning to use for aiding dry off. He asked me if I had any exper

Many of our current strategies for nutrient management on farms focus on how to manage nutrients only once they are a part of the farm.

There are four rations on a typical dairy farm: the ration formulated on paper, the ration mixed and fed by the feeders, the ration the cows