Brett Reinford grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, and he remembers his farm’s cows being fed with cottonseed—35 years ago. “I remember digging tunnels through the cottonseed as a small boy,” he ...

Despite U.S. per capita milk consumption falling significantly in recent decades, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans are consuming a record amount of dairy in butter and cheese ...

Successful dairy farming has always required a degree of precision. This starts with the watchful eyes of producers and managers who, through experience and dedication, know their cattle and their ...

Sean Ellis/Capital Press Cows feed at a dairy near Kuna, Idaho, earlier this year. The new margin insurance program in the 2014 Farm Bill will require dairy operators to study the details before ...

In no branch of the art of feeding live-stock does practice tend to follow more closely the advance of nutritional knowledge than in the feeding of the milch-cow. The ease with which output can be ...

Live microbes are reshaping dairy nutrition, offering new tools to support gut health, rumen stability and production ...

The Food and Drug Administration has confirmed the safety and efficacy of methane-reducing feed ingredient Bovaer in lactating dairy cows, Elanco Animal Health said Tuesday. The ingredient has the ...

Dairy producers frequently add clay as a feed supplement to reduce the symptoms of aflatoxin and subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in lactating cows. In a new study, researchers show that clay can also ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract The objectives of this study were (i) to characterise clinical health in dairy calves on an Irish research farm during the artificial ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

The Missouri Agriculture and Small Business Development Authority has announced two grant programs to assist eligible dairy and beef producers, funding up to 75 percent of eligible projects related to ...