If you have even just a few acres and space to keep a cow, with enough pasture area to provide her with grazing, a milk cow can supply your family with milk. This can be milk for drinking and/or ...

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 ...

Pasture habitat was perfect for bluebirds, which have faced population swings with the decline of small-scale agriculture.

Local dairy farms are downsizing and transitioning to direct-to-consumer sales as economic pressures reshape the industry.

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

When the Lake County Fair opens July 24, a new feature in Barn No. 2 will give visitors a clearer picture of where milk comes from. Some plumbing and drainage work needs to be finished but otherwise a ...

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 ...