Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...
A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their cows, milk quality improved within days and feed costs dropped ...
Two Kentucky teens are sharing a children's book they wrote and illustrated ahead of Agriculture Education Week.
Modern dairy farming is a complex combination of tradition and technology. A balance of the love of the land and its animals along with the ever-changing landscape of dairy production. Traditional ...
Today we met Tom and Ashley Zwald from Bomaz Farms which is a family dairy farm in Hammond that milks 1400 Holsteins and focuses on production through cow comfort. June Dairy Month is a special time ...
Brian Forrest of Maple Ridge Dairy near Stratford, Wisconsin, embodies a spirit of selflessness and resilience. When one thinks of a dairy farmer, the image often conjured is that of a hardworking ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in ...
Brandon Smith, a fourth-generation Connecticut dairy farmer, said that he doesn’t want to see the state’s dairy industry ...