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The Wencl Kajer Farmstead is a former dairy farm in New Market Township, Minnesota, United States. Situated on a hill with a distinctive round barn built in 1918, the farm was a prominent local landmark. [2] The barn was removed from the property sometime between 2008 and 2017. [3] The principal remaining historic building is the 1920 brick ...
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an American member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, [2] focusing on the dairy industry. The cooperative has 1,959 direct producer-members, 751 member-cooperatives, and about 9,000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 ...
The Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery is a historic creamery in Clarks Grove, Minnesota, United States. It was established in 1890 as one of the first cooperative creameries in Minnesota. The Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamery used new technology and a well-organized cooperative system. It became a model for the Minnesota dairy industry.
The Rise of the Dairy Industry In Wisconsin: a Study In Agricultural Change, 1820-1920 (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963). Larson, Olaf F. When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 (2011) Lodermeier, Jackson, and James Petrick. "The Progressive Landscape of Organic Dairy Farming in Wisconsin." (2020). online
A decade ago, the state counted over 4,000 dairy farms. The largest losses this year were in central Minnesota's dairy heartland. Stearns and Morrison counties saw 27 and 21 fewer permits in ...
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture recognized 14 dairy farms in Stearns County, two in Benton County and one in Sherburne County for low somatic cell counts.
In 2010, Swiss Valley Farms, an Iowa cooperative of over 640 dairy farm families, purchased Faribault Dairy, renamed it the Caves of Faribault, and Jirik became Vice President of Blue Cheese Operations. The plant now processes about 180,000 pounds of milk a week, yielding approximately 20,000 pounds of cheese. [5]
[1] [35] Many of Wisconsin's family farms have been closing down, due to increased competition from large factory farms. [36] Since 2005, about half of the dairy farms have closed, [37] leaving Wisconsin with 7000 dairy farms in 2020. [3] Rising tariffs on dairy products have also been a major contributor to the decrease in productivity in ...