A reader recently emailed me, saying that they were distressed about how modern dairies operate. I replied with some insights gleaned from my six decades’ worth of dairy experience. The majority of ...

DECORAH, Iowa — It was livestock check-in day at the Winneshiek County Fair, and the dairy barn was consumed with a kind of pre-prom anxiety. A cow named Daiquiri was lumbering back from the milking ...

AND SOME OF THEIR NEW TECHNOLOGY. 88 COWS HAVE RETURNED TO BRUNTON DAIRY TO A MUCH BIGGER BARN. IT STANDS IN THAT SAME SPOT WHERE THE ORIGINAL BARN WENT UP IN FLAMES NEARLY 15 MONTHS AGO. DAIRY ...

Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be grazing on a dairy farm. Meat from dairy cows, rarely valued in American kitchens and restaurants, usually becomes dog food and fast-food burgers. The ...

As dairy farmers dwindle every year, the demand for high-quality milk remains steadfast, driving a surge in dairy farming. Although this shift improves efficiency, it makes managing the health of ...

Winter’s chill may be setting in, but a sweet interaction between two unlikely barn buddies is melting hearts everywhere. In the tender moment caught on video, a dairy cow can be seen nuzzling up to a ...

From an ICU waiting room to the milking parlor, Kerri Weber saved her family's first-gen dairy dream while her husband fought ...

Fustead Emory Blitz-ET, Excellent 94, born in 1996, is the top-selling Select Sires bull, with more than 1.6 million units of ...

This California dairyman blends a 100-year legacy with vision tech and automation to help slash lameness and prove data-driven care is the future of cow comfort.