RED WING -- A Goodhue County jury awarded $2 million to Lexvold Dairy Partners for damages to their dairy cattle caused by a defective grain silo unloader. The verdict, issued Friday night after three ...

In the early morning hours of Sept. 30, a farm owner noticed the smell of smoke coming from a 70-foot stave silo in the town of Byron, in rural Fond du Lac County, and called the fire department.

It was a warm October night, and the smell of freshly harvested corn silage was in the air. It was 1975, and the newest addition to our family farm was being constructed. A concrete pad next to the ...

The decision to cement the cow yard was monumental. The dairy cows struggled through the mud and were caked with it when they entered their stanchions. The Portland cement would be mixed on the farm ...