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 ...

I just finished reading a piece on Gourmet.com that made me sad. And guilty. And angry. And a little scared. After 144 years and six generations of the same family owning a dairy farm, the Borland ...

For most workers in Wisconsin who get hurt on the job, the state’s workers’ compensation system is there to cover medical expenses and pay a portion of their wages while they heal. “One of the bedrock ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Livestock agriculture is bearing the cost of extreme weather events. A study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

WONEWOC (AP) — Small dairy farms are struggling in Wisconsin, but supporters are hoping for a comeback. In April, the National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that Wisconsin dropped below ...