Running a dairy farm isn't easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I ...
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in ...
Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...
Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. "I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40," Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...
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 ...
Dave Buck of Guardians Farm in Southbury admits that being a dairy farmer is not easy, as high operating costs and inflation make turning a profit more difficult, but he said dairy farming is a labor ...
In the summer of 2024, the Delaware General Assembly passed “The Consumer Choice Milk Act,” which, when signed by Governor Carney, will allow consumers to directly purchase unprocessed, unpasteurized, ...
Elizabeth Eckelkamp receives funding from United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Marketing Systems and USDA - The National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Milton Orr looked across ...