Tariff drama took center stage again this week as the long-awaited “Liberation Day” arrived. Speaking from the Rose Garden, President...

A well-attended panel discussion on water for dairy operations was part of the program for the California Dairy Sustainability Summit...

Dairy producers are doing all they can to keep their barns and milk tanks full, and it shows. In the week ending March 15, they sent just...

The days are getting longer and milk production is climbing. It’s officially spring. The Midwest welcomed in the new season with a few...

The dairy markets are adjusting to the new regime. Trade threats – and new tariffs on U.S. dairy exports to Canada and China – have...

Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County approved paying its share of the planning and permitting cost for the delta tunnel this...

Like a teenager in a bad relationship, U.S. tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico are on-again, off-again, and then changing their...

On February 21, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that it is their intention to schedule a referendum...

Red ink flooded Chicago this week. The dairy markets suffered a deluge of data and news that invigorated the bears. The trade war heated up.

U.S. milk production may have changed its tune. After slipping in the final months of 2024, output appears to have grown in January,

I attended two separate Kern Subbasin GSA board meetings this past week. The Kern folks are ready for their hearing. A tremendous amount...

On February 10, 2025, flows from the Sacramento River through the Delta were increasing following a series of storms in Northern California.

Love is in the air. And while folks across the country may be looking forward to preparing a special date night dinner for their...

California is in a situation right now where the northern part of the state (above Sacramento) is very wet, and the rest of the state...

It was a truly wild week on LaSalle Street. The dairy markets swung violently back and forth amid the on-again, off-again trade war.

This week may have been light on USDA reports, but there was no shortage of news for the dairy markets to digest. Developing stories...

On January 20, the White House released a Presidential Action memo on California water (see below). While the intent of the memo is...

To the dismay of hamburger consumers across the nation, dairy producers sent just 2.76 million cows to slaughter in 2024. That was...

It took more than two years, but the update of the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) formulas is going to be implemented on June 1, 2025.

The devastating fires in Los Angeles County, fairly or unfairly, have put a spotlight on California water policy. This attention has...