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For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...

High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety created a training video to train dairy workers on how to keep themselves and their family safe and healthy.

CEO launched the Colorado Dairy and Irrigation Efficiency Program to help make achieving energy efficiency easy for Colorado producers. The program is designed to address the barriers that prevent producers from investing in energy efficiency by bringing existing resources and partners together and leveraging funding and a turnkey approach.

Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.

Describes a day in the life of Clarabelle, a Wisconsin dairy cow. Text and photographs depict modern technologies that allow farmers to generate more than just dairy products from their herds. Other commodities include electricity, fertilizer, and animal bedding.

Describes how ice cream is made, starting with milk cows on a farm, and how it is combined with other ingredients in a factory to make the finished product.

"In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. When tragedy strikes, the close-knit family is shattered. Each must fight the isolation their own grief and guilt as they attempt to reclaim some semblance of their old life-if they can. Like the best work of Kent Haruf and Marilynne Robinson, Meredith Hall's Beneficence beautifully illuminates the effects of love and loss while...

Lucinda and Rob live together happily with their 117 cows on a dairy farm until Rob proposes. Then Lucinda starts to worry that the sparkle may be fading from their love and she decides to put Rob's love through a series of tests. When she trades Rob's precious cows for a quilt from a mystical old Maori woman, Lucinda realizes that, silly games aside, she must get Rob's cows back before she loses her one true love. Ultimately she must learn the price...

Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers online....