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The dairy industry in the United States includes the farms, cooperatives, and companies that produce milk, cheese and related products such as milking machines, and distribute them to the consumer. By 1925, the United States had 1.5-2 million dairy cows, each producing an average of 4200 lb of milk per year.
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The story of tobacco in America (1949) online edition; Russell, Howard. A Long Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming In New England (1981) online; Schafer, Joseph. The social history of American agriculture (1936) online edition; Schapsmeier, Edward L; and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. Encyclopedia of American agricultural history (1975) online
Eleven years after turning a dairy farm into a milk company that does everything -- from raising Holsteins to inventing seasonal milk flavors -- the Shatto brand has become a must-have for ...
A former dairy farm in Southern Door County now is the county's newest nature preserve. Gannett. Christopher Clough, Green Bay Press-Gazette. December 18, 2023 at 6:07 AM.
Farm land became more expensive and taxes increased. As a result, many farmers sold their land to developers. [18] Dairy farming continued in the Matanuska Valley into the 21st century, largely through the Matanuska Maid Dairy (state-owned until 2006) and then the Matanuska Creamery, the largest of three dairies in the state.
As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm. [ 2 ] Agriculture in the United States is highly mechanized, with an average of only one farmer or farm laborer required per square kilometer of farmland for agricultural ...
Farms in the U.S. continued to get larger and the number of farms fell between 2017 and 2022, new data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed on Tuesday. Agriculture Secretary Tom ...