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.

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

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

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

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today confirmed H5N1 avian flu ...

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

2012 proved to be another year of challenged profitability for Minnesota dairy farms, with net returns per cow down 44% from 2011. That’s based on financial data from 339 Minnesota dairy farms who ...

While Minnesota’s dairy producers have reported few cases, Colorado served as an example of a state that was inundated with infections. They had about 70 out of 100 dairy farms infected with the ...

While Minnesota’s dairy producers have reported few cases, Colorado served as an example of a state that was inundated with infections. They had about 70 out of 100 dairy farms infected with the ...