The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual ...

Bonnie Haugen, a Minnesota farmer and member of the Land Stewardship project, has been raising dairy cows on pasture — not a factory farm — for 30 years. “This is the first year we decided not to ship ...

It would prevent dairy farms from owning more than 700 cows. The sponsors say the legislation aims to reduce the environmental impacts of factory farming and protect family-operated dairy businesses.

Organic and free-range farming is often high maintenance and costly. Allowing cows, pigs, and chickens to roam free requires much more land, water, food, labor, and other resources than factory ...

04/05/2025 April 5, 2025. Cheese that doesn’t come from milk, but from modified yeast cells tweaked to produce milk proteins. The biotech solution could help address problems with factory farming.

Eduardo Porter’s column came to the sad conclusion that we should all be buying beef from unhappy cows raised in feedlots. As a former ecologist with more than 40 years of experience farming ...

New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual dairy farms and more than 600,000 dairy cows. All of those cows reside on farmland outside New York City, which ...