The state’s smallest dairy farms took the biggest hit during the slump as 18,349 farms with 49 or fewer cows were lost from 1987 to 2007, NASS data shows. After comprising 63.2 percent of all dairy ...

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind ...

Farms are turning to cow cuddling as a revenue stream amid decreasing dairy prices ...

A typical work day for Rhode Island dairy farmer Maggie LaPrise starts before sunrise and, depending on the time of year, lasts until well after dark. “I usually get to the farm around 5:30 [a.m.],” ...

Love coffee? Coincidentally LOVE COWS too? Well, getty on up to the Asam Acres farm in Tecumseh Michigan every Saturday and Sunday from 9am-3pm to enjoy a cup of joe and some cow cuddling. Over the ...

FAIRFIELD ― By 6 a.m. on a typical Monday, the husband-wife owners of Stony Pond Farm are up milking cows. By around noon that day, that milk will become squeaky, salty, fresh cheese. Stony Pond Farm ...

Farmer’s greatest secret is making own feeds, proper farm management which has helped keep diseases at bay. When Gilbert Ngetich bought his first Friesian cow in 2009, little did he know that 10 years ...

Damien Boomhower does the morning milking at Bittersweet Valley Farm in Fairfield on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Damien Boomhower and his wife, Jessica, hoped to celebrate their ...

A massive fire and explosion erupted at a Texas dairy farm this week, according to authorities The fiery blast killed more than 18,000 cows at South Fork Dairy Farms in the Texas city of Dimmitt. It ...