On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

With beef cattle herds at a 75-year low, the cow-calf side hustle has sent dairy replacement prices over $4,000, forcing ...

Milking procedures are likely to be the primary routes of H5N1 influenza virus transmission between dairy cows, suggests a paper published in Nature this week. Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Dairy farmers who routinely shuffle cows between groups may be quietly cutting into their own bottom line. Research led by ...

Feeding dairy cows unsold fruit, vegetables and bakery waste can maintain milk production while improving fibre digestibility ...

U.S. milk production hits 20.6 billion lb. as the national herd reaches a 30-year high, driven by extreme cow efficiency and ...

INDIANA – Heat stress remains one of the biggest seasonal threats facing dairy producers. Heat and humidity not only make cows uncomfortable but also ...

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, ...

Making it to the Minnesota State Fair with your family in tow can be a feat in and of itself. Imagine bringing along your family, 15 cows and two calves to stay for the full 12 days of the Fair, plus ...