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.