Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

NORSELAND — Now that all of their cows have come home, Jean Annexstad is back to serving tall glasses of freshly pasteurized milk at her family’s kitchen table. The rural Norseland farmers’ 200 ...

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 ...

Letting milk cows graze longer can produce superior beef — a largely European practice that is now gaining ground in America. By Florence Fabricant Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be ...

On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

Step into the calm rhythm of farm life as we head into the dairy barn for evening milking. Soft light, gentle cow movements, ...

RURAL ALBANY, MINN. - Down a dirt road this week, past the cattle wading in the creek, and up next to a grey barn, a white cow with brown spots calmly submitted to her gussying-up on the eve of a trip ...

High-quality milk remains in high demand, but managing the health of dairy cows is becoming increasingly challenging. To tackle this, researchers have developed an innovative location ...

Culling decisions should be just as important as breeding decisions. Here, two experts explain what to consider when ...

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 ...