Twenty-five years ago, I would have told you that topics like self confidence and insecurities were a bunch of fluff. However, I’ve been through a lot and can tell you that it is the soft issues that become hard problems in farming.

Progressive Dairy’s editorial staff perused the grounds of World Dairy Expo this year in Madison, Wisconsin, in hopes of finding the coolest new technologies and products available to the dairy industry.

It is not the color of the animal’s hide that makes it valuable but the genetics under the hide that matter.

Dr. Andrew Bohnhoff is the Director of Forage and Nutrition for Prairie Estates Genetics. Today he discusses the complexity of determining profitability and how dairy farms can use data to their advantage. He explains in-depth the difference between several popular metrics, the research that helped define them, their limitations, and tells us the best metrics to track for success.

Progressive Dairy caught up with dairy producers who installed varying automated milking equipment on their farms in the second half of the 2010 era.

In this episode of the Progressive Dairy Podcast, host Jenn Coyne visits with Jason Anderson and Pam Selz-Pralle regarding the recently updated Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) Gold Standards.