At 5:15 a.m., Duane Reum slides into his leather Red Wing boots and puts the keys to his 1972 International Harvester pickup truck in the ignition. Duane moves between barns during sunrise at the ...
Ben Maille with Maille’s Dairy Holsteins, waiting to cross Dorset Street to return from pasture to the barn Credit: James Buck For a dairy farmer, Jim Maille is a late riser. He wakes at 6 a.m. and ...
The recent explosion at a Texas dairy farm that killed 18,000 cows is an unmitigated tragedy. But this tragedy also sheds light on the fact that most dairy cows spend their lives in misery. Young and ...