In the precarious world of modern dairy farming, Jimmy Stup gambled and won. Two years ago, when the milk price that farmers received was spiraling lower and some were selling cows or quitting ...

A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their cows, milk quality improved within days and feed costs dropped ...

War labor shortage and other difficulties have brought about the discontinuance of another large dairy farming project in Pittsfield. After 31 years, dairying will be discontinued at Westenhok Farm, ...

LANESBOROUGH — The pattern is all too familiar in Berkshire County and throughout New England. A family that has farmed a place for generations grows older. Some of its members die and the others are ...