Cows are literally designed to eat for hours, which can actually get them in trouble. The rumen, or a cow’s first stomach ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Were cattle evolved to eat grain? Absolutely not. Cattle evolved to eat grass, not grains. Farmers today feed their animals corn and soybeans, which fatten up the animals faster for slaughter. More ...

Samantha Craun oversees 1,200 acres and roughly 900 cows at her farm in eastern Tennessee. She took over Davis Brothers Dairy from her father and uncle, and it’s a lot of work. She grows all the ...

Dairy farmers in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico are grappling with quite the mystery. Something is causing milk production to nosedive, and veterinarians and state officials can’t pinpoint what it ...

In cattle, this gene and the hormone it produces regulates metabolism, fat deposition, and affects reproduction.