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 ...

“He hopped in his pickup one day and bought the farm with 20 cows and a horse,” Schmidt said. “We kind of have grown our farm ...

Minnesota will begin testing raw milk from dairy cows to see if they have H5N1 bird flu starting Monday. "Every farm in the state will be tested once a month," said Dan Glessing, who owns Glessing ...

At one farm, workers lived in a converted barn that was infested with cockroaches. The “kitchen sink” was a utility sink next to a water heater. Photos from civil complaint. Evergreen Acres Dairy will ...

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has quarantined a Stearns County dairy herd after samples collected as part of the state’s milk surveillance plan tested positive for H5N1, a strain of highly ...

A Minnesota dairy farm will pay employees $250,000 in back wages under a settlement with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. On Thursday, Ellison’s office announced a settlement with Evergreen ...

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 ...

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 ...