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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts discuss the merits of switching from small square bales to either wrapped round bales or bagged haylage and silage for a small dairy farm.

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 ...

MONROE COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - Monroe County has held an annual Dairy Breakfast for more than four decades. Breakfast Committee chair, Keith Giraud, says finding a location for the event in recent years ...

FARM FAMILIES CAN HAVE FOOD SHORTAGES TOO. In the Bay Area, some of the very people stepping up to feed families cut off from ...

Wisconsin has lost over 70% of its dairy farms since 2000, hitting a record low of 5,222 herds in August 2024. Low milk prices, rising costs, farmer retirements, and labor shortages contribute to the ...

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 ...

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