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The state agency that regulates Oregon’s $473 million dairy industry has given kudos this month to three dairy operations that have gone above and beyond the call of duty in protecting water quality.

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.

Honorees recognized at the National Mastitis Council Annual Meeting Jan. 23-26 in Arlington, Va.

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.