Farm’s state-of-the-art barn caters to cows

In the barn at Great Brook Dairy Farm, farmer Mark Duffy and his wife use the robotic DeLaval Voluntary Milking System.

(EVAN MCGLINN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

Raw milk debate remains contentious

- Panelists on both sides of the raw milk versus pasteurized milk issue squared off at a Harvard Law forum.

(EVAN MCGLINN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

For dairy farmers, Maine is cream of the crop

- The Balfour Farm organic creamery operation, about 40 miles south of Bangor, is just over a year old. It sits on 100 acres, where 20 Jersey, Normandy, and Holstein cows graze.

(PHOTO: JOHN GOLDEN)