Goodale Farms

The protest, according to organizers, was intended to educate the public about what the group calls the “humane myth” and the “unnecessary cruelty” of dairy farming.

Five calves have been birthed in just the past week at Goodale Farms in Riverhead, with one more on the way.

There’s a small but growing agricultural sector in Suffolk that county officials and sustainability experts are looking to boost: meat production. About a dozen farmers...