Dairy Herd
A dairy farm in Exeter is being honored as Rhode Island’s best.
Emily McClellen may have grown up on a dairy farm near the small Wisconsin town of Delavan, but she spent plenty of time dreaming of Rio.
Danone agreed to buy WhiteWave Foods Co. for about $10 billion to add the best-selling U.S. soy milk brand Silk and expand in organic food in its biggest acquisition in almost a decade.
Northeast dairy farmers who have been strapped for months by low milk prices say a voluntary insurance program that was supposed to be a safety net isn’t helping.
An Illinois dairy farmer is handing the reigns over to his sons after 43 years of service to the industry.
Records show Ohio’s prisons agency made nearly $1.3 million after selling about 1,400 dairy cattle as part of a larger effort to raise money for new rehabilitation and job-training programs for inmates.
Group argues the milk price paid by consumers is not representative of the price paid to producers.
After selling off its herd of dairy cows, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction will now pay $2.6 million to provide milk for the state’s roughly 50,000 inmates.
Germany says it will provide at least 100 million euros ($112 million) to help the country’s milk producers who have been suffering from falling prices.
People will travel miles and miles to sample fresh-off-the-farm ice cream and learn about the treat’s origins.
Hawaii Dairy Farms says its planned operation on Kauai will serve as a model for sustainable agriculture and won’t have a negative impact on the environment or surrounding community.
A Vermont dairy farmer has partnered with a local wind developer to bring a 2.2-megawatt wind turbine to his family’s farm in Holland, Vt.
At least two barns were destroyed in an intense dairy farm blaze in Pennsylvania, but no one was injured.
It’s a hot, hazy morning under the awning where cattle congregate at Abel Dairy in Eden, Wis., 2,200 miles from Silicon Valley.
Study will look if bacteria has antibiotic resistance and whether bacteria survive manure processing and storage.
Hungarian dairy farmers have marched with some 50 cows near parliament asking the government to lower taxes on all dairy products while claiming that support from Hungary and the European Union is insufficient and ineffective.
China Huishan Dairy sells 50,000 cows and leases them back.
On the edge of Belarus’ Chernobyl exclusion zone, down the road from the signs warning “Stop! Radiation,” a dairy farmer offers his visitors a glass of freshly drawn milk. Associated Press reporters politely decline the drink but pass on a bottled sample to a laboratory, which confirms it contains levels of a radioactive isotope at levels 10 times higher than the nation’s food safety limits.
Units in Murray Goulburn Co-operative Ltd. fell to the lowest since they began trading last year after the Australian dairy group slashed its profit target by as much as 50 percent because of lower milk prices and a resilient Australian dollar.
Louisiana lawmakers have killed an attempt to lift the state’s ban on sales of unpasteurized — or “raw” — milk for the third year in a row.
A set of triplet heifers is doing well after being delivered at a dairy farm in western Michigan.
Mexican-food chain hopes to ride gooey trail to more sales.
Handing over the reins to the family farm can be a difficult process, but it is the ultimate goal of most families to pass on the farm to the next generation.
Despite recent rain and snow, California still faces a critical water shortage.
Plant should be operational in the fall of 2017.
By the end of the year Agricola ANCALI’s 6,500 cow dairy near Los Ángeles, Chile will be home to 64 individual robotic milkers.
Danone, the world’s biggest yogurt maker, forecast profitability to improve in 2016 as its fresh-dairy business recovers, sending the shares higher.
New Zealand banks are probably taking a close look at their lending to dairy farmers as global prices plunge and many in the industry brace for a third season of potential losses, Finance Minister Bill English said.
The cheese police are on the case.
The global over supply of milk is pushing prices downward and giving bankers around the globe heartburn.