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 — ...

Innovative practices — from diet additives to regenerative grazing — can offer quick wins in the fight against global rising temperatures.

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 ...

Not all dairy farms are testing their cows, however, and some of the infected cows in the current outbreak have not shown any symptoms. “Raw milk is unsafe at any speed, and the notion that you could ...

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 ...

Larsen said the concentration of H5N1 viruses in the milk of infected cows is 1,000 times higher than typically seen in infected birds. He said he and his colleagues calculated that even if the milk ...