A small dairy planned near Glenns Ferry targets a gap in the south-central Idaho market caused by the closure of two operations in 2021. Wild Spaces Farm owner Wilder Jones, an organic producer, is ...

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – STEVENS POINT, Wis. — America’s small dairy farms are disappearing as larger agricultural operations are producing more milk, cheese, ice cream and butter at lower costs. Some ...

MONROE (WKOW) -- The outlook on farming in Wisconsin is pretty grim -- so farmers are becoming creative to survive. We last talked with a local dairy farmer Dan Wegmueller in 2019, just before peak ...

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Dairy farmers are quitting en masse, but milk production keeps growing in another sign of the terrific forces at work against small dairies in the Upper Midwest. A report this week from the U.S.

Sarah King at her small dairy in Oregon. Sarah King keeps three cows on her small farm in Oregon, each named for Disney princesses: Elsa, Raya, and Mulan. She milks two of them at a time and sells the ...

In the summer of 2024, the Delaware General Assembly passed “The Consumer Choice Milk Act,” which, when signed by Governor Carney, will allow consumers to directly purchase unprocessed, unpasteurized, ...

SALEM — Small dairy producers won’t be subject to Oregon’s confined animal feeding operation permit requirements, as farm regulators have decided against implementing the year-old policy. Without ...

YAMHILL COUNTY, Ore. — Small dairies no longer have to follow the same rules around waste as large operations, eliminating the need to install expensive waste treatment systems, the Oregon Department ...

Jason Schmidt, like many small dairy farmers nationwide, has seen costs increase and profits decrease. While the number of dairy farms is declining, the average size of the farm is growing — dairy ...