DUBUQUE, Iowa — Stall designs commonplace in free-stall barns up until a few years ago are failing cows, says Nigel Cook, with the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. Failure to ...

RUSHFORD — It takes some muscle to open the barn door at D and D Dairy. The cross-ventilated free-stall barn with evaporative cooling is sealed to make sure the air is pulled across the barn by the 40 ...

Farmers looking to get into the dairy business or expand their operations may want to consider building a compost barn to house animals. Dairy experts and farmers already using the facilities say they ...

HOOSICK, N.Y. — Sporting a red "Make Earth Cool Again" baseball cap, Gary Hirshberg took in the scenery around High Meadows of Hoosick. As 80 cows munched grass or took a lie-down in a brand-new, free ...

Oklahoma State University hosted a grand opening celebration for its upgraded dairy facility April 5 in Stillwater. The Ferguson Family Dairy Center was completed in December 2017 and the free-stall ...

Rebecca Miller/Farm and Dairy Beef steers chow down, at Jim Beardsley’s farm, in Salem, Ohio, Dec. 12. After selling his dairy herd in November 2019, Beardsley retrofitted his free stall barn to make ...

Selected technological solutions can impact health status of animals. The aim of this case study was to determine the effect of different housing systems on disease prevalence and the productive ...

D & D Dairy was started in May 2007. Two neighboring dairymen joined together to form a partnership. Donny and Cherryl Kjos were milking 160 cows, and Dean Smith was milking 270. Both Donny and Dean's ...