Dairy - General
Fields should be scouted every week following the first cutting of alfalfa.
Department of Agriculture provides $35,000 to help dairies manage manure, protect water.
Report recommends dairy-specific training for regulatory staff.
Family has farmed the land for 100 years, and today its thriving dairy farm uses cutting-edge technology to increase profits and protect the environment.
Grants up to $5,000 are available to farmers in the Animal Welfare Approved program.
USDA is making investments of more than $21 million in energy projects nationwide.
One objective is to explore innovative ways to use products previously considered waste streams from dairy production, processing and handling.
Fair Oaks milk trucks no longer use diesel. Instead, they head to dairy manufacturing plants to fill up.
The mobile app features an easy to use heat stress calculator for inputting the current temperature and humidity readings.
Wait until your crop is growing vigorously to take stand counts.
Large dairy operations tend to have lower green house gas footprints because of more efficient feed conversion.
Net returns per cow averaged $293 in 2012, down from $524 in 2011.
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to pay Danone for recall
Food box idea draws criticism from Democrats, advocates
From comfort to high-tech: Food a serious quest at Olympics. And you won’t believe how much they’re going through.
Best practices from 25 pilot projects across the U.S., the European Union and Russia will be studied.
On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation’s food safety limits.
Louisiana lawmakers have killed an attempt to lift the state’s ban on sales of unpasteurized — or “raw” — milk for the third year in a row.
A Vermont dairy farmer has partnered with a local wind developer to bring a 2.2-megawatt wind turbine to his family’s farm in Holland, Vt.
Study will look if bacteria has antibiotic resistance and whether bacteria survive manure processing and storage.
It’s time to have a conversation about flatulent cows.
Sustainability is for everyone. In fact, you’re probably already sustainable and didn’t know it.
New research suggests producers can select cows for lower methane production.
Fair Oaks Farms, a progressive dairy, pork and crop farm in northwest Indiana, was recently the subject of some less than savory media attention.
A conservation tillage pioneer defies skeptics to reap tangible benefits for his farm, his dairy and the environment.
A public-private partnership helps dairies save California’s endangered Tricolored Blackbirds.
Applications for the $10,000 award must be postmarked by July 10, 2015.
The dairy industry is increasing food production in a sustainable manner while meeting consumers’ expectations for improved health and well-being of dairy animals, say experts in Journal of Dairy Science.
Producer Jared Fernandes has saved $125,000 in his operation’s first year of solar power.
Green Mountain Power has partnered with a family farm to set up its third wind turbine to save money on electricity.