The Springfield Livestock Marketing Center, Jefferson City, Missouri, rpeorted receipts of 377 head of dairy cattle selling during a special sale Jan. 28, compared to 652 head last month and 239 head ...

Susan Spadaro wasn’t expecting to get emotional about auctioning off 100 of her family’s Brown Swiss and 25 Ayrshire cows on Thursday. “We’ve just always had a passion and love for these animals and ...

Since 1960, Holstein dairy cows have exhibited a substantial decline in fertility, with serious economic consequences for farmers. Genetic selection programs in the United States and elsewhere have ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other. He brings up a website on his computer.