When Michael Geerlings bought Brook View Dairy in 2004, he knew he would work toward a more sustainable way of farming. Decades later, his operation is setting the standards for farms across the ...

In contrast, dairies are open to the outside environment and in many cases — such as the flushing of dairy stalls with lagoon water — purposely introduce potentially infected water (from dairy ...

Reed Hostetler, 31, of Marshallville, Ohio, died after a tractor he was on tipped into a manure lagoon at his Fulton Road family farm.