Raising dairy cows delivers multiple benefits. Just one “bossy” contentedly chewing her cud in the lower 40–or even in a small backyard plot–can easily provide your family with all the milk, cheese, ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. — Derek Schmitz wasn’t always successful in raising and milking dairy cows. The 29-year-old has worked to grow his understanding smack dab in the biggest dairy county in Minnesota — ...

One of the primary reasons for a reduction in cows headed to slaughter is those females are being kept to make more ...

Nayeli and Priscilla Garcia have been following in the footsteps of their grandfather — former Kuna dairy worker Efren Garcia — since they turned 8, routinely seeking his insights on hay market and ...

How this California operation is turning genetics and data into profits by raising higher performing beef-on-dairy calves ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Raising beef on dairy-crossed cattle is starting to have a significant impact on the beef market. For the past five to six years, beef on dairy cattle have become more common in ...

In the U.S. agriculture industry, bird flu isn’t just for birds anymore. An avian-influenza outbreak that has led to the death of about 80 million birds over the past two years is now sickening dairy ...

What they found – loads of the H5N1 influenza virus – has rocked the dairy industry and put public health officials around the world on alert. It also created an urgent scientific to-do list. One of ...

(CNN) — In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, ...