Modern dairy cows are milk-producing powerhouses—some yielding more than 50 kg a day. But all that productivity comes at a price: their mammary glands often suffer from inflammation and cellular ...

A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their cows, milk quality improved within days and feed costs dropped ...

If you have even just a few acres and space to keep a cow, with enough pasture area to provide her with grazing, a milk cow can supply your family with milk. This can be milk for drinking and/or ...

A dairy farmer’s delight is when his cow is producing lots of milk. And lots of milk is what Kenya needs right now if assertions by Agriculture CS Peter Munya are anything to go by. Alex Gathii, a ...

Cow cuddling, ice cream churning and farm tours are among the tactics dairy farmers are employing to compensate for low milk prices ...

Industrial-scale dairy wants you to believe that they can turn cows’ milk green. As US milk consumption continues its decades-long drop, industrial dairy is increasingly desperate to hold on to ...

Local dairy farms are downsizing and transitioning to direct-to-consumer sales as economic pressures reshape the industry.

Cato Corner Farm in Colchester sits at the center of the cheese universe. The farm, named one of the “Top 50 U.S. Cheesemakers” by Food and Wine, is owned and managed by the mother-son team of ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Second graders at a Syracuse-area charter school will learn alongside a new calf-mate this year. In celebration of their new four-legged friend, the second graders performed an ...