Commercial milk is safe due to federal requirements and pasteurization. The law of supply and demand has shown for centuries that when the amount of a good in high demand dwindles, prices change ...

Cull cow marketing is rarely an all-or-nothing decision. The nuances of each operation should be discussed when deciding to ...

SCHODACK LANDING, N.Y. — The 1,500 Jersey cows that Nathan Chittenden and his family raise in upstate New York seem to lead carefree lives. They spend their days lolling around inside well-ventilated ...

Beef-on-dairy crossbreeding is the latest step in the evolution of dairy genetics and is now a key driver of the U.S. supply of both beef and dairy cattle. Some 72% of dairy farms are now ...

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

The fire spread quickly through the holding pens, where thousands of dairy cows crowded together waiting to be milked, trapped in deadly confines. After subduing the fire at the west Texas dairy farm ...

DIMMITT, Texas (KFDA/Gray News) - Texas officials say thousands of cattle have died in a fire at a dairy farm. KFDA reports that upwards of 18,000 cattle died in the fire that started Monday night at ...

HYDE PARK, Vt. — Grappling with a changed industry, two brothers operating their family’s dairy farm in Vermont have made the drastic decision to give up hundreds of cows for goats. The Jones family, ...