Agriculture officials next month will begin mandatory testing of milk from Minnesota’s dairy farms for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered national testing of ...

The USDA ordered nationwide testing after multiple states confirmed the virus was present in dairy cattle. Minnesota reported nine cases last year. A dairy cow on a southwest Minnesota farm. Minnesota ...

Caledonia, Minn. farmer Cole Hoscheit has made several visits to Mexico to meet the families of workers on his dairy farm. He is a board member for Puentes/Bridges, a Wisconsin-based organization that ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture hopes to roll out testing of raw milk on dairy farms in February as the USDA works to control the spread of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu. According to a ...

The state appeals court has ruled a Winona County board did not act unreasonably when denying an application from a longtime farm family seeking to exceed a county limit on the number of dairy cows ...

A dairy farmer is accused of underpaying employees, then threatening them when they complained, Minnesota police said. Photo by Leon Ephriam via Unsplash Employees who labored long hours on a dairy ...

A dairy cow on a southwest Minnesota farm. Minnesota will be among the next group of states to start mandatory testing of milk from dairy farms for the H5N1 virus.

If bird flu is lurking undetected on Minnesota’s dairy farms, the state is determined to find it. Starting in February, milk from each of Minnesota’s 1,625 permitted cow farms will test once a month ...