Lifelong dairy farmers Frank and Brian Kimm are bucking a staggering trend toward fewer dairy farms in North Dakota and Minnesota. The downward spiral is typical for most of agriculture, but no area ...

Manure management is a critical aspect of sustainable agriculture, particularly for smaller dairy farms where resources and space are limited. Methane, a greenhouse gas that is a leading cause of ...

Ben Wagner may be a dairy farmer, but that job description is woefully incomplete. He’s also an accountant, squaring the numbers for his central Minnesota farm by hand; a herder, rotating 75 cows ...

On a below-freezing morning in March 2013, Israel Lepe Quezada was crushed to death while working on a dairy farm in northeast Wisconsin. The farm’s owner had found Lepe pinned between the engine ...

Courtesy of Institute for Justice Small dairy farms across Oregon will no longer be subject to a state policy change some farmers say would’ve been too burdensome. The Oregon Department of Agriculture ...

Nate Leland, left, herd manager at Ideal Dairy Farms, talks with H & N Bovine veterinarian Pandora Davis about one of the dairy's cows on Nov. 11, 2021, in Hudson Falls. The number of dairy farms has ...

Meshoppen, Pa.: The National Federal Milk Marketing Order Pricing Formula Hearing in Carmel, Ind., commenced on Aug. 23. If the goal of the federal government and the USDA, in particular, is to ...

Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A new study explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, finding that high heat and humidity lead to a 1% decline in ...

Sharon Laubscher tends to heifers at her small dairy farm outside of Wonewoc in Sauk County. Laubscher is one of the leading advocates for the Wisconsin dairy industry, is a director on the Wisconsin ...

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