From 1978 to 1988, the number of dairy operations dropped 40 percent, to 220,880 from 369,210.

On this land, he established a store and a small dairy operation.

"Red Hart's one of the biggest dairy operations around here," the man had told her.

A reduction in the dairy operation shouldn't be a surprise.

There he found a job at a dairy operation and published books.

The farm was one of many dairy operations in the area.

The farm shifted from wheat to dairy operations by the 1860s.

Somewhere between 1920 and the 1930s, the dairy operation.

The campus is situated in the heart of the dairy operation.

But the growing season is short, and many longtime farm families have given up on their dairy operations.