In recent years, feed costs have represented more than 60 percent of the cost of producing milk, and feed prices have been high relative to the sale price of milk. Now that milk prices are finally on ...

ST. JOHNS, Mich. (WLNS)—Carla Wardin, co-owner of Evergreen Dairy in St. Johns, Michigan says a cow’s diet is crucial. Wardin grows alfalfa her farm harvests four times a year, and corn for her cattle ...

Canada is now one of the top buyers of U.S. corn as cattle ranchers scour for grain to feed their animals. Dry conditions zapped as much as 40% of western Canada's grain output last year, sending ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

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