Dr. Meggan Hain is the chief veterinary officer for the National Milk Producers Federation, whose farmers produce two-thirds of all milk in the United States. Dairy farming requires long hours of ...
EAST LANSING — Research from Michigan State University Professor J. Richard Pursley is trailblazing an area within dairy cattle management that Wendell Van Gunst says is essential to keep farms ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2022 ...
Editor’s Note: This is one article in a series that is included in the 2025 Farm Journal’s State of the Dairy Industry report. The full 16-page report will appear in the May/June issues of Dairy Herd ...
Washington, DC—In a letter delivered today to the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) urged the industry group to improve its welfare standards for dairy ...
Halter’s collars, powered by small solar panels nudge behaviour - a sound here, a vibration there, repeated until herd begins ...
Nationally, 39% of dairy farms disappeared between 2017 and 2022 as the industry is moving toward more commercially-owned ...
Two tornadoes tore through west Michigan on April 14, destroying properties and sending hundreds of cows wandering loose into ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORRS — At the top of Horsebarn Hill Road in Storrs is home to the UConn dairy farm, with over 80 cows. The dairy barn is run by ...
A recent essay in The New York Times by Andrew Jacobs called "Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows?" has generated a lot of interest because more and more people in the general public—not only pro-animal ...