Last year, our Jersey cow Pumpkin came up “open,” meaning she didn’t get pregnant after being with the bulls. She’s been a great mom and milk producer for us, so we decided her body needed a year off.

Mastitis remains one of the most costly and persistent health challenges facing dairy farms today, whether cows are milked in a parlor or by robots. In 2024, mastitis was estimated to cost the U.S.

Cows are highly intelligent and deeply sentient and emotional beings with distinct individual personalities, and have been observed using tools. 1 Every individual has a unique personality, and it’s ...

What would a cow think about a mechanical, human-operated counterpart taking its place feeding calves? Who knows, but a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Both President Trump and his Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are on a dairy kick right ...

In recent years, American milk has undergone a quiet transformation. The milk produced by our dairy cows has become creamier and more luscious as breakthroughs in cow genetics and nutrition have ...

JAKARTA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Indonesia imported 1,383 more cows from Australia this week, agriculture officials said on Monday, as part of an ambitious $3 billion plan to woo small farmers to join ...

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Oreo Mexico's new campaign celebrates milk, cookies and cows that already look perfectly dipped Oreo’s new ad stars real cows that naturally resemble the iconic cookie The campaign encourages a ...

U.S. milk production is setting records, but those volumes are sending increasingly misleading signals about the health of the dairy sector. Milk cow inventories are at their highest level since 1993, ...

The nation’s school districts can begin reintroducing whole milk into school cafeterias for the first time in a decade, and Lancaster County dairy farmers are hoping the move will translate into a ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...