THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in ...
Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. "I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40," Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene ...
By 2022, only 24,470 dairy farms were in operation. While the number of dairy farms has fallen, the average herd size—the number of cows per farm—has been rising. Today, more than 60% of all milk ...