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, ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. — Derek Schmitz wasn’t always successful in raising and milking dairy cows. The 29-year-old has worked to grow his understanding smack dab in the biggest dairy county in Minnesota — ...

Farms of all sizes can benefit from well-managed pastures. Rotational grazing can provide high-value and low-cost forage for ...

Colton Brodt, left, with Barrett, Amanda and Blakely, raise dairy cows using robotic milking systems in Humboldt County, Calif. FERNDALE, Calif. — Dairyman Colton Brodt says the robots working at his ...

In early March, Dr. Barb Petersen, a large-animal vet in Texas, began getting calls from the dairy farms she works with in the Panhandle. Workers there were seeing a lot of cows with mastitis, an ...

Asked if the raw milk in the new experiments looked different than normal, Kawaoka said the researchers only got a small number of samples but some had more debris than milk from healthy cows. That ...