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Under revised air-quality Rule 4570, California dairies must cut silage emissions.

8,000-cow manure processing center in Wisconsin has it all.

Solar panels lead the way, USDA’s first-ever nationwide renewable energy survey shows.

As part of a Canadian delegation to Europe last month, Don Kenny, chair of the Guelph-based Grain Farmers of Ontario, stood alongside federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and others, imploring the European Union to take a science-based approach to agricultural trade and genetically modified crops. Any decisions made in Europe about restricting Canadian imports should be based on scientific study, not theoretical threats or public pressure, they said.

Just over a month ago, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will allow American farmers to plant a genetically engineered version of alfalfa. The news also sparked an angry debate among organic advocates about what’s most important in the organic label.

A flush-flume sand settling system simplifies sand removal at 3-D Dairy.

It was below freezing as an “AgDay” photographer and I toured Brubaker Farms in early December. But we quickly warmed to the Brubakers—patriarch Luke, sons Mike and Tony—this year’s Innovative Dairy Farmers of the Year (see “Power and Profit,” page 8).

Summary highlights dairy industry’s efforts to increase economic, environmental and social sustainability.

A methane digester and solar panels power Brubaker Farms, 2011 Innovative Dairy Farm of the Year.

Brubaker Farms uses solar panels and a methane digester to provide energy for the farm and hundreds of local homes.