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.

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 ...

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 ...

The University of Minnesota will honor families from nearly every county in the state this coming week, as part of its ...

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

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 ...

DUNDAS, Minn. - Like everywhere else the gals at Wolf Creek Dairy have had more than enough of the cold. "I'm very tired of this winter," one worker said. Owner Paul Liebenstein is on the lookout ...

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 ...

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.

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.

“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.

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.