With increasingly unsteady milk markets, a lot of farmers will be wondering if they should buy milk replacer for next spring. Farmers who do use milk replacer begin typically begin feeding it to ...

Raising babies is no joke. Whether that be human or animal, it can be exhausting, scary, and overwhelming. To make matters even worse, those first few months of life are incredibly important for ...

When a new spot opens in town, we’re eager to check it out, let you know our initial impressions, share photos and dish about menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review ...

Many dairy farms go back and forth on whether to feed waste milk (WM) or milk replacer (MR) to their calves. This decision is not easy, as each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. There ...

What do you do when you’re hit with a tidal wave of milk? Make cheese of course. Cheesemaking, at its core, is a method of preserving milk, transforming a perishable liquid into a diverse array of ...

Introduction: Nowadays, many dairy sheep farms opt for milk replacers after birth. Weaning lambs from milk replacers is expected to be a stressful situation. Methods: With the aim of researching this ...

Six weeks ago, we brought home six Finnsheep ewes, a milking breed from — you guessed it — Finland. Earlier in the summer, I’d been traveling through Wisconsin and met my first “family milk sheep.” I ...