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My partner, the cow

Missouri's sagging dairy industry was revitalized with research that put cows to work in their own feeding and waste disposal

Written by · Photography by taken at MU Foremost Dairy Center by Genevieve Howard · June 15, 2011

In the nineties, Missouri’s dairy industry was in trouble. More than 50 percent of the state’s dairies had disappeared, leaving fewer than 2,000 of the businesses operating in 2000.