The tragedy of selling the family farm is a plotline so common that it’s become a trope. A family farm is loved, carefully tended to and passed down, but the next generation doesn’t want to or can’t ...

For more than three decades, Helga Tacreiter has been running The Cow Sanctuary in Bridgeton, New Jersey. "It's a little bit, tiny bit less than 80 acres," says Tacreiter. "I have Jersey cows, ...

Dr. Meggan Hain is the chief veterinary officer for the National Milk Producers Federation, whose farmers produce two-thirds of all milk in the United States. Dairy farming requires long hours of ...

Cows are often seen simply as farm animals, quietly grazing in fields or standing in barns, rarely acknowledged as emotional or intelligent beings. Most people never get close enough to discover how ...