Taylor Evink of Riverview Dairy discusses the dairy operation planned in Traill County, North Dakota. Riverview held a information session in Halstad, Minnesota on July 9, 2024. (Jeff Beach/North ...

A cow feeds inside the barn at the North Dakota State University dairy research facility in Fargo on March 14, 2025. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor) North Dakota’s struggling dairy industry could ...

ABERCROMBIE, N.D. — A pair of dairy farms planned for eastern North Dakota could more than quadruple the number of dairy cows in the state. Riverview, a Minnesota-based business, is planning on a $90 ...

Sam Wagner, senior ag and food field organizer for the Dakota Resource Council, said neighboring Minnesota can't be ...

ABERCROMBIE, N.D. — Regardless of the direction from which you enter the small town of Abercrombie, fields nearing harvest with crops of beans and corn and ditches laid with grass to be baled surround ...

ABERCROMBIE, N.D. — A private study says the proposed dairy cattle operation near Abercrombie poses serious risks to the area's ground and surface water. David Erickson, a principal hydrologist with ...

ABERCROMBIE, N.D. — Despite pleas from most residents in Abercrombie for the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality to hold a public hearing on a proposed 12,500-head dairy cattle operation, ...

After year's of dwindling numbers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2022 Census of Agriculture pegged North Dakota's dairy cow population at 14,191. But a Minnesota company's plans to expand into ...

Avian flu spreading to cows has heightened the need for biosecurity in the dairy industry, the North Dakota state veterinarian told a legislative committee Thursday, June 20. State vet Ethan Andress ...

BISMARCK, N.D. | North Dakota should exempt dairy and pork operations from its more than 80-year-old anti-corporate farming law to help those industries rebound after years of decline, a state senator ...

A drop in the number of North Dakota dairy farms -- from 350 in 2000 to 91 today -- has led to scrutiny of a state law that allows only family members to form farming corporations. While the rule ...

North Dakota’s dairy industry has been dwindling for decades, shrinking to about 10,000 dairy cows and just 24 dairy farms. North Dakota state Rep. Dawson Holle, R-Mandan, who operates one of North ...