Wisconsin, U.S.A.
3,300 hutches shelter newborn calves to supply Milk Source, one of the largest dairy operations in the U.S. Each hutch has a small outdoor corral, but the genetically similar calves are separated to prevent the spread of disease. The calves stay here from their first week of life until six months old. Water and feed trucks circulate through the farm regularly, as does a team of veterinarians. Wisconsin's dairy industry has consolidated from 150,000 employees just after World War II to less than 10,000 today. The expansion of automated, industrial-scale dairies producing cheap commodity milk has made small-scale dairies either shift to organic milk or go out of business.
