Wisconsin has lost over 70% of its dairy farms since 2000, hitting a record low of 5,222 herds in August 2024. Low milk prices, rising costs, farmer retirements, and labor shortages contribute to the ...
On a below-freezing morning in March 2013, Israel Lepe Quezada was crushed to death while working on a dairy farm in northeast Wisconsin. The farm’s owner had found Lepe pinned between the engine ...
Twice a day, Waneva LaVelle brings her three miniature dairy goats into her barn for milking. The rest of the time they’re free to roam her 17-acre farm in Hubbard, in north Marion County. LaVelle ...
A group of four dairy farmers is suing the Oregon Department of Agriculture over a new policy that they say will threaten their small businesses. Starting April 1, some small dairies will need to ...
Previously, the ODA had warned some dairy farms that they could face fines if they failed to register as Confined Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs. In a memo from last year, the agency said several ...
YAMHILL COUNTY, Ore. — Small dairies no longer have to follow the same rules around waste as large operations, eliminating the need to install expensive waste treatment systems, the Oregon Department ...
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