At Kate Steensma’s farm, dairy cows may earn a name due to physical characteristics or personality traits. Steensma notes that one cow, Houdini, was a particularly memorable escape artist. Steensma is ...

Water scarcity remains a formidable challenge in many agricultural sectors, and the dairy industry in Washington is no exception. For Jason Sheehan, a fourth-generation dairy farmer running J&K Dairy ...

Leading into late 2003, beef export markets were on a roll, said Dan Halstrom, who was then working in Washington, D.C., for ...

Santa isn’t the only one getting milk this Christmas, nor are his elves alone in working to ensure great holidays for the Spokane community. While Santa and company are filling stockings, area dairy ...

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Modern dairy farming is a complex combination of tradition and technology. A balance of the love of the land and its animals along with the ever-changing landscape of dairy production. Traditional ...

As of last week, a long-running avian influenzas outbreak has affected more than 85 million poultry birds, making it the deadliest avian flu epidemic in U.S. history. If that wasn’t enough cause for ...

The cases, if confirmed, would be the first time people in Washington have contracted the virus since officials began tracking a notable rise of it in birds and other animals starting in the U.S.

In this photo provided by migrant farmworker José Molina-Aguilar, he works milking cows on a Vermont dairy farm on Friday, June 20, 2025. (Courtesy José Molina-Aguilar via AP) MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — ...

Bethesda resident Barbara McGraw has worked nearly a decade to bring a museum to what is left of her childhood stomping grounds: a solitary white dairy barn at the South Germantown Recreational Park.