For years now, the Prigel Family Creamery has been trying hard to mimic Serengeti-type grazing with its 180 milk cows in Glen Arm, Maryland. Well, it must be working because in May 2015 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called. They wanted to use the farm’s pastures and cattle to test brand new anti-poaching equipment, soon bound for the African savanna.

Event: FireInjury or losses to cattle: No animals died in the fireTotal property damage: $350,000Insured: YesTotal covered losses: Full coverage

The Diederichs brothers used to do their machinery repairs and maintenance in a 36-by-45-foot shop and stored equipment among three locations.

Crowd-funding and dairy farming don’t necessarily go together in most people’s minds, but Farmers Creamery, maker of Kalona SuperNatural dairy products, made it work.

At the Horizon Organic Dairy Farm outside Kennedyville, Maryland, 480 lactating cows are grazed in a carefully designed and managed pasture system. Providing this many cows with high-quality pasture requires good herd and pasture management skills.

The leaky bucket theory, as it relates to dairies, would suggest there are always losses in an operation, so production should forever increase to compensate for the losses (to keep the bucket from running dry).