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Meantime, there is hope that the small dairy farms will continue to survive and create a niche just like many of the state’s cheese producers have done. Some small dairy farmers sell their milk ...

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 ...

As farms has consolidated, the size of the average dairy operation has also grown considerably. The number of dairy farms dropped by 88 percent between 1970 and 2006, and the industry continues to ...

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 ...

YAMHILL COUNTY, Ore. — Small dairies no longer have to follow the same rules around waste as large operations, eliminating the need to install expensive waste treatment systems, the Oregon Department ...

Chet Mozloom, executive director at The Lands at Hillside Farms, in the field with the farm’s ‘retired’ cows. Funding from the Food Dignity RFSI grant will, in part, be utilized to acquire a ...

Dairy cows at a farm in Ionia County. Dairy farms have to adhere to enhanced biosecurity measures following an outbreak of bird flu. Michigan cattle farmers are working with new protocols as the state ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. In 2017, the media seized on a data point from ...

STEVENS COUNTY, Wash. - Hidden north of Chewelah behind a red mailbox small enough to miss in a blink, Clover Mountain Dairy is bottling milk for the people of Stevens County - they have been for four ...

Five years or so ago, dairy farming stopped being fun for Robert Bassett. He had taken pleasure for 30 years in managing his herd, working outdoors and being his own boss. He had chosen this life, ...

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 ...