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, ...

The scent of cattle is an unavoidable assault on the senses at an Arkansas dairy farm on a hot October day. But it's a ...

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 ...

Good heifers are the future of a dairy, so it is important to raise them to grow optimally—to become healthy, high-producing cows. Dr. Bob James, a dairy consultant and owner of Down Home Heifer ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

New lab experiments with milk from cows infected by H5N1 influenza, known as bird flu, confirm that it is infectious, especially when left raw, or untreated, and potentially even when flash ...

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 ...