Alfalfa hay has long been a premier forage for dairy cattle...

Earlier this month, I was asked to speak on the future of forage in the dairy ration. Futuristic talks are both good and bad. On the one hand, it’s difficult to know what will happen before it happe...

“The turkey’s on fire!”That was how I was greeted at my parents’ house on Thanksgiving minutes before the rest of our family was supposed to arrive. No, the bird in the oven was not up in flam...

Effective animal management is essential for maintaining healthy pastures and maximizing forage production...

Forages are a key part of dairy diets with implications for dairy farm productivity and sustainability...

Wabasha, Minn., may ring a bell as the setting of the 1993 comedy film “Grumpy Old Men.”...

It is common to hear from university faculty that stocker cattle and Kentucky 31 tall fescue are a bad combination due to the forage’s fungal endophyte and its impacts on animal performance...

The University of Wisconsin’s Randy Shaver and his colleagues developed the MILK2006 model nearly 20 years ago...

Smaller margins due to higher feed costs and lower milk prices have been forcing dairy managers to find opportunities to reduce expenses...

The futures market is shining a more promising light on milk prices for the second half of the year. Even with record high milk prices expected, though, the risk of weaker export sales, changes...