Chad Kieffer, a third-generation farmer from Utica, Minnesota, has five milkers for his herd of 350 cows. The milkers are squat, patient, persistent workers. They hum around the mooing cows. They are ...

A farmer is sitting by a cow, milking by hand. The year is 1944, the year I was born. He’s milking the same way his father and grandfather did before him. Nothing much had changed in milking cows over ...

Learn how to make a goat-milking stand for delicious milk from your goats. Learning to successfully hand-milk your goats with this DIY goat stand can make the difference between a fridge full of ...

NOME, North Dakota — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand ...

Carole Soule with Belle, a milking short horn cow. Belle is a twin and because her twin brother was a male, she is sterile (also known as a freemartin heifer.) Belle will never have a calf so she will ...

TIMONIUM, Md., Aug. 24 -- The touch of a teat, warm and dry and dripping milk, is no longer a part of Patrice Dickens's daily life. But Dickens, 22, grows nostalgic remembering her childhood spent ...

NOME, N.D. — There was a time when small, family dairy farms could be found all across our North Dakota and Minnesota townships. Now, some farms in the region are milking more than a thousand cows.