Visitors from around the world have toured a historic, family-owned dairy farm about 3 miles from Lake Michigan. For $5, you ...

Minnesota will begin testing raw milk from dairy cows to see if they have H5N1 bird flu starting Monday. "Every farm in the state will be tested once a month," said Dan Glessing, who owns Glessing ...

Dairy cows crowd a fence waiting to be milked in Ridgeway, Minn., in April 2024. Samples from each of Minnesota's 1,625 permitted dairy farms will undergo testing once a month for H5N1, the virus ...

In Minnesota, the virus has been far more destructive to the poultry industry, where it has caused the deaths of millions of commercial turkeys and chickens as well as backyard flocks since 2022.

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk from each of Minnesota’s 1,625 permitted cow farms will ...

SOUTH HAVEN, Minn. (AP) — A lot has changed in the 70 years Janski Farms has been operational. Everything but one building has been expanded, converted, newly constructed or upgraded to keep up ...

“Today, we send a strong message that dairy farms like Evergreen and all employers in Minnesota cannot illegally profit off the backs of workers,” Ellison said in a statement on Thursday, Oct. 3.

Evergreen Acres Dairy will pay $250,000 in back wages and make repairs to its worker housing to settle a lawsuit brought by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who alleged the ...

A dairy cow on a southwest Minnesota farm. Minnesota will be among the next group of states to start mandatory testing of milk from dairy farms for the H5N1 virus.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota's dairy industry is showing a little bit of growth after years of decline, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A dairy cow on a southwest Minnesota farm. Minnesota will be among the next group of states to start mandatory testing of milk from dairy farms for the H5N1 virus.

Riverview Farms hopes to build a $90 million facility just south of Abercrombie in Richland County. It is also proposing a $180 million, 25,000-head operation southeast of Hillsboro in Traill County.