A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business.
U.S. dairy farmers already struggling with low milk prices worry President Donald Trump’s talk of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could harm trade to Mexico, its biggest export market.
An Idaho conservation group has filed a complaint to several state agencies asking officials to inspect a wastewater pit used by a Nampa cheese-making plant.
Canada’s ambassador to Washington said Tuesday night that President Donald Trump is wrong when he says Canada’s trade practices in the dairy industry are “very unfair.”
Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm. Now the man from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught congressional investigations in recent memory.
A small, all-natural dairy isn’t being deceptive when it calls it’s skim milk “skim milk,” a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a victory for the creamery that’s fighting the state’s demand to label the product “imitation” because vitamins aren’t added to it.
A planned dairy farm in Hawaii has taken a step back by withdrawing parts of its application to allow more time for discussion of its likely environmental impact.
It’s been more than a year of sustained low milk prices. For small farms like Sugar Hill Dairy, a first-generation operation started 15 years ago in Kersey, Colo., that means difficult choices.
Nebraska’s wide grasslands, fields of golden corn and gushing aquifers make the state a nearly perfect home for cows that are content to live a quiet life of chewing cud and being milked.
