When Scott Nickell, corporate fleet manager, described Prairie Farms as “the biggest small company you’d ever want to be ...

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 ...

Riverview Farms, from Morris, Minnesota, schemes to build large dairy facilities housing 12,500 and 25,000 cows near Abercrombie and Hillsboro, North Dakota, respectively. On Jan. 3, Riverview ...

Owners of a large Addison County dairy farm already found liable for polluting a neighbor’s land want to expand, raising concerns that increased runoff could damage a public water supply and worsen ...

PETALUMA — The chickens on Mike Weber’s farm live in coops, not cages. Their care has earned an official “Certified Humane” designation. Their organic poop, treated with solar-powered dryers, is ...

Growing up, virtually every rural farm had at least one Jersey milk cow. The Jersey resembles a large deer, both in color and size, with large, soft eyes and a gentle demeanor that make them ideal for ...

How smelly is a hog farm or a feed lot? That’s a question the North Dakota Department of Agriculture plans to answer with a computer-generated model to help guide where livestock operations can be ...

Arizona's dairy industry began expanding in the 1970s, its growth spurred by advances in maintaining cooler surroundings for the cows. Although large corporate operations have moved into the state, ...

Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...