Leprino’s mozzarella plant fosters dairy growth

Dairy farming is something of an oddity on the U.S. farm scene because it’s the only segment in agriculture in which fewer and fewer dairy farms are producing more and more milk, even to the point of creating a surplus.That peculiarity makes dairy farming an “anomaly that is hard for many people to understand,´ said Chris Kraft, a dairyman who, with his wife, Mary, has owned and operated a dairy farm in Morgan County since 1988.
Among the many factors that are driving milk production up are huge improvements in genetics and nutrition and more-efficient dairy management.
"These factors…