Looking for a reason behind the growing milk production numbers isn’t as simple as more cows equals more milk. Milk cow numbers are high, one of the highest in the last twenty-five years. However, ...
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 ...
U.S. milk production is setting records, but those volumes are sending increasingly misleading signals about the health of the dairy sector. Milk cow inventories are at their highest level since 1993, ...
News that bird flu has been spreading between cows for months and that fragments of the virus are even showing up in milk on U.S. grocery store shelves have fueled new worries about the risk the virus ...
Hornstra Farms welcomed more than three dozen milking cows to the Whitman location. What that means for business.
This answer is fueled by coffee with a splash of milk from a dairy cow. I asked my friend Kimberly Davenport why my morning milk doesn’t come from a beef cow. She’s an expert in cow genetics at ...
For 2026 alone, 3,900 more cows have been culled each week on average compared to a year ago, resulting in year-to-date slaughter being 35,000 head or 7.5% higher than the year prior.