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 ...

Modern dairy cows are milk-producing powerhouses—some yielding more than 50 kg a day. But all that productivity comes at a price: their mammary glands often suffer from inflammation and cellular ...

Kenya boasts of one of the largest dairy sub-sectors in Africa and is one of the most rapidly growing. This is in terms of robust dairy breeds, productivity, mechanisation and processing of dairy ...

Researchers at Michigan State University's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources have been studying dietary fats and ...

Situated in northern Susquehanna County just below the New York border, Jim and Kim Barbour have taken an unconventional approach to making their farm profitable. Their farm is almost the last active ...

In life, all of us have challenges. But when considering the ones farmers face, ours seem minor. For farmers, they are ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. — Derek Schmitz wasn’t always successful in raising and milking dairy cows. The 29-year-old has worked to grow his understanding smack dab in the biggest dairy county in Minnesota — ...

As labor and fuel costs surge, the Dairy Margin Coverage program is failing to reflect on-farm reality. Enter the data-driven ...

AND SOME OF THEIR NEW TECHNOLOGY. 88 COWS HAVE RETURNED TO BRUNTON DAIRY TO A MUCH BIGGER BARN. IT STANDS IN THAT SAME SPOT WHERE THE ORIGINAL BARN WENT UP IN FLAMES NEARLY 15 MONTHS AGO. DAIRY ...

Provides an overview of the daily operations on a small dairy farm owned by Mr. Johnson. It contrasts large factory-like dairy farms with smaller, family-run farms where owners and their children ...

It all starts with a cow. These gentle, grass-chewing giants are the foundation of an entire food system built on milk. When a dairy cow becomes pregnant around one year of age, she begins a ...