EAST VANCOUVER, Wash. — Dennis Lagler and his sons, Nathan and Tyson, operate a dairy near East Vancouver, Wash., across the Columbia River from Portland.
SANDPOINT, Idaho — One milking cow was all it took for Paul and Debra Herndon to start selling milk to friends.
COQUILLE, Ore. — In 20 years, Organic Valley producers Mike and Lisa Miranda increased their milking herd from 22 to 200 and now dedicate 450 acres to growing their own feed.
MESA, Wash. — Case VanderMeulen and his team of employees milk 7,000 Holstein cows at the state-of-the-art dairy he built near Mesa, Wash., in 2007.
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — You might say the cows at Oldenkamp Dairy have the run of the place.
BOW, Wash. — Norma Ruiz first fell in love with cattle at her grandfather’s dairy in Mexico, where they milked 20-25 cows.
A cow hoof trimmer, Drew Peterson’s job is vital yet unfamiliar to most people outside dairies. Viewers of the television show “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe” know about it.
Being next to the busiest interstate highway in Oregon provides van Loon Dairy with a unique farming experience.
Knott Dairy Center at Washington State University serves as a teaching and research laboratory for students as well as a working dairy typically milking 180 cows.
John Hansen and his cousins run the dairy in partnership. About a decade ago, they expanded from 1,000 to 3,000 cows.
In 1952, their grandfather, Hans Nederend Sr., arrived in Chino, Calif., from the Netherlands. His passion was to be a dairy farmer.
ROSEBURG, Ore. — In 1931, when Ormond Feldkamp and Herb Sullivan began delivering fresh local milk, butter and ice cream from the back of their 1929 Hudson, little did they imagine that 90 yea…
ST. PAUL, Ore. — Hazenberg Dairy, a family farm that was relocated from Washington state to Oregon by patriarch Henry Hazenberg, has maintained its sustainability through the years.
Ben Andersen and his family own and operate two dairies in Idaho — Seagull Bay Dairy in American Falls and Andersen Dairy in Declo.
HELVETIA, Ore. — Five years ago, Dave and Casey Schoch made a decision that changed the trajectory of their dairy forever.
One of the secrets of survival in agriculture is flexibility — something Carole and Jerome Rosa learned early on in their quest to own and operate their own dairy.
According to the owners of Achadinha Cheese Co. and Pacheco Family Dairy, it’s the cows and goats that run the farm, not the owners.
Jennifer Heguy says working with dairies while still doing research is the best of both worlds.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Taking care of the land comes naturally to Chris Doelman.
When it comes to milking, the cows at Abiqua Acres Dairy near Silverton, Ore., call the shots.
Stephen Weststeyn says his dairy farm’s tag line is simple: “Making milk, feeding people.”
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — If you were a cow, you would want to live here. The weather is mild year-round and the grass grows thick on bottomland soil within earshot of the ocean.
Cheesemaker Anastasia Stuyt has deep roots in California’s fertile Central Valley but the roots grew stronger when her career took an unexpected turn.
The Rollinger family has been farming in Sunnyside, Wash., for more than a century, so they don’t run into many surprises anymore.
The Gibson family has grown its dairy farm from 120 acres in 1941 to 2,800 acres today.
Among her many roles as an assistant professor at Oregon State University Extension, Jenifer Cruickshank serves as the “dairy person” on food-related tours organized by the Oregon Dairy and Nu…
An on-site lab, the only one in eastern Idaho where Holstein eggs are gathered and embryos transferred full-time, is enabling genetically superior animals to be raised at Cannon Dairy Farms ne…
Terry Ketterling grew up on a small dairy, then became a farmer and raised sugar beets.
Cherry Valley Dairy, an 80-year-old farmstead in Duvall, Wash., north of Seattle was purchased in 2005 by Gretchen Garth.
The Koch family of Canby, Ore., started their registered dairy program in 1987, extending it 10 years later to their latest dairy adventure — a new commercial creamery and line of farmstead cheeses.
Cozy Vale Creamery in Tenino, Wash., provides raw milk and cream for locals and for stores from Federal Way south to Chehalis.
Cody Nicholson Stratton’s family has been in dairy farming for upwards of 8 generations, still close to their roots in Humboldt County in Northern California near the Oregon border.
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — When feed costs rise, dairy producers take a renewed interest in growing high-quality feeds on their own land to keep overhead low.
The Will-O-Dell Farm near Filer, Idaho — which has been in the family 100 years as of April 3 — is operated by Dale Williams and his wife, Della Ann.
Garry Hansen is a third-generation dairy farmer who, with Lacey, his wife of one year, has embraced diversification as a means of achieving success at their 100-cow, all purebred Jersey Lady L…
Although retired, 10-year-old Ammon-Peachy Shauna is still a celebrity in the Holstein world.
