Running a dairy farm isn't easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I ...

The number of milk-producing farms declined by nearly 39% in the five years leading up to the 2022 Census of Agriculture. The survey of of farms and ranches conducted every five years reported 24,082 ...

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 ...

Michael Oosten’s grandparents were dairy farmers in the Netherlands and immigrated to California in the 1920s, starting their own dairy farm in Paramount in 1945 before relocating to bigger farms in ...

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 ...

Five years or so ago, dairy farming stopped being fun for Robert Bassett. He had taken pleasure for 30 years in managing his herd, working outdoors and being his own boss. He had chosen this life, ...

PALMER — As a sharp wind brought the first raindrops of a fall storm, the cows inside the Havemeister Dairy barn pushed their faces into piles of hay, snuffing and chomping, a decades-old ritual. By ...

The co-founder of yogurt producer Stonyfield Organic has formed a partnership of farmers, processors, activists and government agencies in an effort to help dairy farmers who have been hurt by the ...

The Dairy Modernization Grant Program — funding from the state for dairy farms statewide, including 13 farms in Western New York, awarded back in June — is helping dairy farms across the state by ...

This new dairy farm bill is an udder failure. Cityslicker state lawmakers from the Big Apple want to limit the number of cows on New York’s dairy farms – a green push that opponents argue would ...

Running a dairy farm isn’t easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. Photo by Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo) This story was originally published by The Conversation. Milton ...

Elizabeth Eckelkamp receives funding from United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Marketing Systems and USDA - The National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Milton Orr looked across ...