Twice each day, dairy cows line up 12-at-a time to be milked at Rolling Lawns Farm in Greenville. As the animals enter the milking parlor, caretakers clean and sanitize each cow’s udder before ...

Edwardsville-based Prairie Farms donated the butter for this year's "Butter Cow" at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. EDWARDSVILLE — State officials have honored the long-term contributions of ...

Higher feed and fuel prices will probably take half the $4 to $6 per hundredweight price increase Illinois dairy farmers can expect for their product in 2007. "2007 appears to be an economically ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

Lorilee Schultz, whose childhood memories include munching cream puffs in the Dairy Building at the Illinois State Fair, had a special reason for attending this year's unveiling of the famed butter ...

A Springfield, Illinois, family sells raw milk from their homestead. Raw milk sales became legal in Illinois in 2016, and there are currently 16 licensed producers in the state. While some consumers ...

CEDARVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Some Illinois dairy farms are producing a whole lot more than milk these days, and Scheidairy Farms in Buckeye Township is a prime example. The 650-head farm, which sells some ...

An Illinois dairy cooperative is recalling some gallons of fat-free milk because they may contain food-grade cleaning agents. Prairie Farms, headquartered in Edwardsville, Ill., is recalling about 320 ...

An Illinois dairy cooperative is recalling some gallons of fat-free milk because they may contain food-grade cleaning agents. The company said it learned Nov. 24 that some of its fat-free milk may ...