Oversupply and weakening consumer demand have been causing milk, butter and cheese prices on the wholesale market and at the grocery store to fall slightly. The lower prices on the dairy staples are ...

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 ...

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 ...