Cow cuddling, ice cream churning and farm tours are among the tactics dairy farmers are employing to compensate for low milk prices ...

Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be grazing on a dairy farm. Meat from dairy cows, rarely valued in American kitchens and restaurants, usually becomes dog food and fast-food burgers. The ...

As the dairy industry evolves, so do the tools needed to keep up with it. From shifting herd sizes to tighter labor windows ...

Just like the waterfalls for which Burket Falls Farm is named, David C. Burket Sr. was gentle, full of life and always moving in the same direction. That’s how his son John Burket remembered his ...

Quick Read U.S. dairy farming has shifted toward scale economics over two decades, with smaller operations systematically left behind as farms under 1,000 cows decline while larger operations grow, ...

Minnesota’s largest milk producer plans to get bigger. Riverview LLP has applied for permits to build the single largest ...

Fustead Emory Blitz-ET, Excellent 94, born in 1996, is the top-selling Select Sires bull, with more than 1.6 million units of ...

Fairmont Farm and Market supplies meat to Montpelier eateries, and also sells the same locally raised products directly to consumers through its Fairmont Market.

At Kate Steensma’s farm, dairy cows may earn a name due to physical characteristics or personality traits. Steensma notes that one cow, Houdini, was a particularly memorable escape artist. Steensma is ...

Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be grazing on a dairy farm. Meat from dairy cows, rarely valued in American kitchens and restaurants, usually becomes dog food and fast-food burgers. The ...