Standing tall in the heart of New York State with a rich tradition, New York Dairy just unveiled its masterpiece, The Udderly Amazing History of New York Dairy. This is no ordinary documentary on a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dairy farming is the practice of raising and breeding livestock to produce milk for human consumption. While the industry isn't going away any time soon, plant-based milk alternatives such as soy, ...
By 2022, only 24,470 dairy farms were in operation. While the number of dairy farms has fallen, the average herd size—the number of cows per farm—has been rising. Today, more than 60% of all milk ...