Hundreds of Florida Dairy Cows Perish in Ian’s Savage Wake

MYAKKA CITY, Fla.—They hustled the herd from their stalls and into the unfastened fields wherever the cows would beryllium safer from the storm, a signifier honed during a half-century of dairy farming successful Florida and successful Maine for a period before. The monolithic steel-frame, metal-roof barns that housed Dakin Dairy Farm’s astir 5,000 Holsteins could withstand winds up to 70 miles per hour, Jerry Dakin said, but astatine “80 to 100, things commencem...