Fewer U.S. dairy cows, but more milk

U.S. dairy farmers are breeding cows that are prodigious milk producers, says Harvest Public Media, and the exemplar is Gigi, a Holstein that produced a record 75,000 pounds of milk, or 8,700 gallons, in 2010. That’s three times the U.S. average, which has been growing since the late 1950s, with the result there are fewer… » Read More