Dairy cows crowd a fence waiting to be milked in Ridgeway, Minn., in April 2024. Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 ...

More than 1,100 Minnesota dairy farms closed up between 2012 and 2017, leaving only about 3,600 farms in an industry beset by years of low milk prices and a long, hard winter that delivered enough ...

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk from each of Minnesota’s 1,625 permitted cow farms will test once a ...

Farm runoff from manure and commercial fertilizer have imperiled the drinking water for many in Minnesota farm country.

A Social Media Influence While Vander Kooi wears many hats, including farmer, wife, and mother, her role as a social ...

Agriculture officials next month will begin mandatory testing of milk from Minnesota’s dairy farms for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered national ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture hopes to roll out testing of raw milk on dairy farms in February as the USDA works to ...

Minnesota and Iowa were added to the National Milk Testing Strategy on Jan. 8. There are now 36 states involved in the ...

Pasture-based dairies struggle to compete with industrialized farms. The Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship aims to help them ...

A dairy cow on a southwest Minnesota farm. Minnesota will be among the next group of states to start mandatory testing of milk from dairy farms for the H5N1 virus. Agriculture officials next month ...