The state’s smallest dairy farms took the biggest hit during the slump as 18,349 farms with 49 or fewer cows were lost from 1987 to 2007, NASS data shows. After comprising 63.2 percent of all dairy ...

MONROE COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - Monroe County has held an annual Dairy Breakfast for more than four decades. Breakfast Committee chair, Keith Giraud, says finding a location for the event in recent years ...

Farmer’s greatest secret is making own feeds, proper farm management which has helped keep diseases at bay. When Gilbert Ngetich bought his first Friesian cow in 2009, little did he know that 10 years ...

When the four Hansen brothers came back to the small family dairy farm in Hudson, Iowa, which had operated since 1864, things needed to expand. So, in 2004, the family built its own on-site creamery ...

Wisconsin has lost over 70% of its dairy farms since 2000, hitting a record low of 5,222 herds in August 2024. Low milk prices, rising costs, farmer retirements, and labor shortages contribute to the ...