COLD SPRING, Minn. — Derek Schmitz wasn’t always successful in raising and milking dairy cows. The 29-year-old has worked to grow his understanding smack dab in the biggest dairy county in Minnesota — ...

Cow cuddling, ice cream churning and farm tours are among the tactics dairy farmers are employing to compensate for low milk prices ...

$1,500 or more for beef-on-dairy calves is reason to keep extra cows and breed them with beef semen, which limits dairy ...

Have you ever seen a cow get a pedicure? It was one of the highlights of our recent trip to Katherine Boelen’s family dairy farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa. We spent a good 10 minutes watching an ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

Kelp has long been used to keep cows healthy but it may also help reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. A cow sticks her nose into a tub of kelp additive at Larson family dairy near Ottertail ...

In life, all of us have challenges. But when considering the ones farmers face, ours seem minor. For farmers, they are ...

This story appears in the December 2025 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes Asia New Zealand unicorn Halter, founded by Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia alum Craig Piggott, is one of the fastest-growing ...

Wisconsin has been keeping track of dairy farm numbers since 1950. At that time, there were 143,000 dairy farms in the state.