Dairy women from all sectors of the industry came together Nov. 1-3 in Minnesota for the Dairy Girl Network (DGN) National Conference, which provided ample networking opportunities for attendees and a variety of sessions to learn about topics affecting the dairy industry.

Nearly 800 dairy producers and industry representatives gathered in Boise, Idaho, on Nov. 9-10 for the Dairy West annual meeting.

What do you think the hottest beverage trend is among Gen Z consumers? It is fruit smoothies, and we know dairy and smoothies are made for one another.

When Kimberly Little, owner of Little Moments Photography, posted her Christmas calf mini session photos of 6-month-old John Waylon and her Jersey calf named Rudolph, she never expected it to go viral on Facebook.

In 4-feet-high letters strung across the front of the manure pit on Ryans Glade Farm, a twinkling light display reads “Moo Moo Moo Dairy Christmas” – a dairy farmer's take on “Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas.”

For a lot of farm families, the in-laws quickly become the outlaws due to factors you’d never consider.

After a decade of sorting out the direst farm succession and farm debt cases, I have found that dysfunctional in-law relationships are often a key underlying ingredient to these problems. Really good families are hit by landmines of the in-law kind, and everything explodes. If these families knew what those landmines were before they stepped into them, they would have been able to avoid them.