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Social Ambassadors 

Connecticut Milk Promotion Board contracted with New England Dairy with a focused effort to increase engagement, expand communication channels,...


School Support & Activities

Engaging students and kids with positive dairy farming content is an important part of growing future consumers.  While parents...


Did You Know Cows Have Their Own Nutritionist?  

Dairy cows, like humans, have certain nutritional needs to keep them healthy.  Dairy farmers work with dairy nutritionists who...


How do dairy farmers keep cows comfortable?  

Did you know a farmer’s top priority is to ensure cow comfort? It’s true! Farmers work hard every day...


Farming is Tough, Here’s Why We Chose It 

There is an agricultural meme I’ve seen on social media with a picture of cows eating hay, with a...


Dairy Farmers are People Too

Life as a dairy farmer may conjure up an idyllic scene of someone in coveralls, with calloused hands, and...


Why I Share my Dairy Farming Journey

Hello, I am Grace Peckham! I am the seventh generation on my family’s farm, Elm Farm, located in eastern Connecticut,...


Caring for Cows and Newborn Calves (Pt 2) 

This past summer, we had three calves born on the farm, all three with different experiences.  Ivory gave birth...


Caring for Cows and Newborn Calves (Pt 1)

Sometimes being a dairy farmer feels like working in the birth center of your local hospital.  Every year we...


Spring on the Farm

Warmer nights and softening soils thawing from the harsh winter are welcome signs of spring.  As the peepers start...


5 Ways to Spoil Mom on Mother’s Day

Giving mom a Mother’s Day she will treasure doesn’t have to mean spending a lot of money on big...


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