Mooreland Farms

10/12/2026

10/11/2026

So cool!!

On Monday, Good Morning America will give viewers a chance to see a side of dairy farming they may not expect.

Several DFA farmer-owners are scheduled to be featured as part of Portraits of Modern Dairy, an initiative highlighting the women helping shape dairy today.

The segment airs on National Farmers Day and is expected to run between 8 and 9 a.m. ET on ABC, with an extended version on GMA3 between 1 and 2 p.m. ET.

We're of the farmer-owners who opened their farms and shared their time to help people better understand dairy farming.

10/09/2026

A female calf can be born unable to reproduce when her twin is male.

This is called a freemartin. When male and female calves develop as twins, their placental blood vessels can connect, allowing hormones and cells to pass between them. This can interfere with normal reproductive development in the female calf.
About 90% of female calves born twin to a male are freemartins and are infertile.

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09/29/2026

Augusta County AGRICULTURE DISCOVERY DAY IS COMING! 🐄🌾
Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 3! We’re bringing agriculture to life at the Augusta Expo from 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — and you’re invited! 🎉

Come out for a FREE, family-friendly morning where kids (and adults!) can touch it, try it, ask questions, and discover where their food and fiber come from. 🌱🐑🚜

✨ What can you expect?

🚜 Tractors & farm equipment
🐄🐑🐓 Animals & livestock
🌱 Plants & crops
🩺 Animal health & veterinary science
🐝 Pollinators & honey bees
🌾 Hands-on agriculture activities
🥛 Dairy & farm-to-table connections
🧑‍🌾 Local farmers & agricultural businesses
…and SO much more!

Whether you grew up on a farm or have never stepped foot on one, there is something for everyone!

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026

⏰ 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
📍 Augusta Expo
💰 FREE ADMISSION

Bring the kids. Bring your friends. Bring your curiosity! ❤️

Come DISCOVER AGRICULTURE right here in Augusta County!

09/16/2026

Well, that’s a wrap on this year’s sunflowers. There’s still a few late bloomers for picking, but photography is done. We thank everyone who came out to enjoy them this year, and for following our page. We enjoy doing this each year to share with you. Some have asked about seed for bird feed: we hope to harvest them this fall. Stay tuned for updates on that. Happy fall, y’all!

09/16/2026

What Happened to America’s Small Dairies?
A Message for Consumers

Small dairies did not disappear because farmers suddenly forgot how to work.

They disappeared because the system changed around them.

For decades, farmers were told that expansion was the only path to survival: milk more cows, borrow more money, build larger facilities and produce more milk. But when thousands of farms followed that advice, production increased faster than profitable markets could absorb it. Milk prices fell, while feed, fuel, labor, equipment, veterinary care and hauling costs continued to rise.

Meanwhile, processors and cooperatives consolidated. Farmers were left with fewer places to sell their milk—and less power to negotiate what they were paid.

Large-volume farms could receive preferential hauling arrangements or volume premiums. Smaller farms were often charged more per hundredweight to haul their milk, hit with stop charges, or told that their milk route was no longer economical.

A dairy farmer cannot simply shop around for another buyer when only one processor serves the region.

Many families borrowed more money to survive the low-price years. Others sold cows, took outside jobs, started selling milk directly to consumers or quietly closed the barn doors for the last time.

This matters to consumers.

When small dairies disappear:

• Food production becomes concentrated among fewer companies and larger operations.
• Rural businesses, schools, churches and communities lose families and income.
• Consumers have fewer local choices.
• A disruption at one major processor can affect a much larger portion of the food supply.
• More control over our milk moves away from farmers and local communities.

Cheap milk at the grocery store was never truly cheap. Someone absorbed the cost—and far too often, it was the farm family producing it.

Small dairies are not asking consumers to feel sorry for us. We are asking you to understand the system.

We need fair and transparent milk pricing, genuine competition, accountable cooperatives, reasonable hauling costs, stronger antitrust enforcement and policies that stop rewarding endless expansion while established farms are driven out.

America did not lose its small dairies because they were unwilling to work.

We lost them because hard work could no longer overcome a market designed to favor size, volume and concentrated power.

And once those farms are gone, rebuilding them will be far harder than protecting the ones we still have.

09/13/2026

Well, there are still some pickers, but overall the flowers are pretty droopy. There a a couple colored ones opening, volunteers from last year. We have so enjoyed seeing everyone’s photos. Feel free to come for the couple of days, but there’s not much time left. Thank you!

09/09/2026

Their time grows short…the beautiful blooms only last so long. Come enjoy them while they last!

09/08/2026

Pictures my 5 year son took with my phone. Thought it’d be fun to share.