I have been looking forward to writing this blog post for sometime now. Times are changing in the dairy industry in the U.S. On one hand, we are witnessing the rapid consolidation of commodity dairy ...

BAXTER-JeJe was the star attraction at the eighth annual milking contest at Culver's in Baxter, but she wasn't as nervous as some of the local celebrities who tried hand-milking the Holstein cow. June ...

Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

There's a real technique to milking a cow by hand. You can't just tug and expect milk to come out. I learned that lesson the hard way between the last two June Dairy Days cow milking competitions, ...