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A group of dairy cows stand in a caged area inside a farm

Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?

Canada’s practice of limiting milk production ensures a stable market for its dairy farmers. It’s also being touted as a potential solution to the US dairy crisis.

A row of dairy cows

While small dairy farms close, this mega-dairy is shipping milk to China

Food
An employee prepares organic unpasteurized butter

A global croissant craze is part of the reason why butter is in short supply in France

Business
School lunch

Trump’s new school lunch plan allows for ‘dangerously high levels of sodium’

Culture
Perhaps 70 percent of workers at Idaho's dairy farms are foreign-born, mostly from Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua

For a lesson on immigration reform, head to an Idaho dairy farm

Business, Economics and Jobs

China and food safety

Health & Medicine

Complaints about the melamine-treated baby formula were made as early as December 2007, but they weren’t acted on, nor were they reported.

Can raw milk be safe?

Global Politics

The debate over raw, or unpasteurized, milk is heating up as advocates claim it’s safe and state governments weight the risks.

Milk Chiller Tech to Aid Poor Farmers

Millions of gallons of milk go to waste globally due to improper refrigeration. But now, there are numerous efforts underway to develop cost-effective technologies to assist small farmers and dairies in keeping their milk cool.

The World

The Grass is Greener

Dairy herds aren’t getting out to pasture much any more. In recent decades, farmers have been keeping the barn doors shut, preferring to feed grain to their cows to increase their milk output. But farmers in Vermont are challenging the conventional wisdom with a practice called management intensive grazing. The technique is turning out to […]

A Return to Old-Fashioned Milk Production?

In Canada, government scientists have discovered a report by the Monsanto Corporation, makers of Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) which stimulates milk production in dairy cows. The document indicates that the hormone may be linked to certain thyroid and prostate diseases, and could be implicated in some cancers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved […]