Credits

Milkshed Ledger is illustrated only with photographs in the public domain, most of them taken by staff of federal agencies — the US Department of Agriculture, NASA, NOAA — in the course of their work. We picked images that show what our articles describe: cows at the bunk and on pasture, a pond being surveyed, a flooded valley, a water sample being read. This page lists each one with its source.

Photographs (public domain)

• Holstein dairy cows at a feed bunk (on: the home page and the WDR binder guide). USDA Agricultural Research Service photo library. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain (work of the US federal government).
• Holstein-Friesian cow on pasture (on: the dairy welfare evaluation guide and the Spanish page). Photo: Keith Weller, USDA. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• A USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service area engineer setting up a laser level on a construction site in California (on: the dairy General Order history). Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• Cows at a feed lane, with a flush tank and lagoon system, at a dairy in Missouri (on: production area visual inspections). Photo: Ken Hammond, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• Cattle grazing under the shade of a tree on a small dairy farm (on: heat stress). Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• The southern San Joaquin Valley and the reappeared Tulare Lake seen by the MODIS instrument, 2023 (on: nitrogen transformations in soil). MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• Flooded farmland along the San Joaquin River (on: emergency planning). Photo: Pete Fickenscher, NOAA National Weather Service, California Nevada River Forecast Center. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• Irrigating alfalfa by filling a check, Jackson Ranch, Kern County, California (on: forage and plant tissue sampling). Photo: Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916), Library of Congress. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• A technician reading a water sample test (on: drinking water from farm wells). Photo: Kemberly Groue, US Air Force. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.
• Dairy barn of the University Farm at Davis, California, 1909 (on: the animal health and welfare hub). Published by Leroy Anderson. Wikimedia Commons file page · public domain.

Photographs were cropped to a 3:2 frame and converted to WebP at 960 and 640 pixels wide. No other changes were made.

Typefaces

• Domine, by Impallari Type, for headings. Google Fonts · SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Manrope, by Mikhail Sharanda, for text. Google Fonts · SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Both are served from this site, with no request to a third-party font service.

Logo and graphics

The Milkshed Ledger logo — a drop over two ledger lines and the line of a field — and the site's layout were drawn for this publication. The PDF fact sheets kept at a few older addresses are original summaries set in standard PDF fonts.