Small family operated dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business as large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion ...

It would seem to be a good time to be an organic dairy farmer. Thanks to consumer demand for healthy, environmentally friendly, and ethically produced products, US sales of organic food climbed to $60 ...

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(BPT) – Picture this: You’re walking down the dairy aisle at your local grocery store and see an assortment of milk, cheese and other delicious dairy products. You ask yourself: How do I choose? Well, ...

Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, New York ...

SEVERAL YEARS AGO. HIGHGATE DAIRY FARM IN NEWPORT HAS BEEN IN THE ORGANIC BUSINESS FOR TEN YEARS. THEY HAVE FELT THE ECONOMIC CRUNCH IN RECENT YEARS, BUT REMAIN STEADFAST ON THE BENEFITS OF THEIR ...

Nearly 90 organic dairy farms in the Northeast, including 28 in Vermont, will lose their contracts with an organic dairy company when it stops buying milk in the region by the end of August of next ...

"Hopefully this will take off, and if it does we can take on some of our fellow farmers and keep everybody in business in Maine."There are an estimated 1,800 to 2,000 certified organic dairy farms in ...

VERNON — In the last four years, 40 percent of Vermont's organic farms have gone out of business. That's 70 small herd and family farms that had decades of history in the Green Mountain State's ...