After dairy farmers across Connecticut urged state lawmakers to pass a tax credit incentive to help an industry burdened with ...
Farm animal advocates have, over the last few decades, successfully drawn public attention to and meaningfully reduced the ...
This new dairy farm bill is an udder failure. Cityslicker state lawmakers from the Big Apple want to limit the number of cows on New York’s dairy farms – a green push that opponents argue would ...
Brandon Smith, a fourth-generation Connecticut dairy farmer, said that he doesn’t want to see the state’s dairy industry ...
Fewer than 80 dairy farms remain in Connecticut — a 63% decline over two decades. In the heyday of the industry during the 1950s and '60s, the state had nearly 1,000.
It’s a gross understatement to say that dairy farming in Hawaii is a difficult business. The industry, once numbering close to 100 farms, has been in decline over four decades. Two costly endeavors to ...
Deconstruction took place Sunday on the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s 34th butter sculpture, preparing it for a second role. The 1,000-pound work of art, which depicted a life-sized dairy cow, cityscape ...
NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Governor Kathy Hochul announced nearly $21.6 million has been awarded to 103 farms across the state through the Dairy Modernization Grant Program to support New York’s dairy ...
A single day of extreme heat can cut milk production by 10 per cent. And it doesn’t stop there – the effects of heat stress on dairy cows can linger for more than a week. That’s the finding from a ...
Hornstra Farms is working to restore the former Peaceful Meadows site in Whitman to a working dairy farm. The farm purchased the property in 2023 and has already made progress, including bringing cows ...
A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explores how heat stress affects U.S. dairy production, finding that high heat and humidity lead to a 1% decline in annual milk yield.