Dairy farms now rely on six-figure, beef-on-dairy profits as low milk prices hit. This vital shift demands diversified ...

Running a dairy farm isn't easy, especially when the costs of production rise faster than income. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I ...

Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had more than 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...