Brown Swiss dairy cows — with soft brown eyes and a smooth chocolatey-colored coat— are kinda cute for a cow. Young Shippensburg Community Fair exhibitors AnnMarie Deaven and Skyler Reichard are fond ...

DES MOINES — For nearly six decades, Lee Barber brought prize Brown Swiss dairy cows to the Iowa State Fair. Not this year. The reason: the bird flu outbreak racing through dairy herds across the ...

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — The folks at Olson's Dairy are a little excited. Their cow, Thane Jesse Vigor Jessa, received the JP Eves Award for milk production, and she also was awarded a plaque for top ...

The cheese Dave Eagle and his son, Matt, make is aged for months at temperatures around 40 degrees to ensure a bacteria-free product. LIPAN -- How now, brown cow? Pretty well, apparently, because milk ...

MANITOWOC - The National Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Association recently announced that Mitch Kappelman, of Manitowoc, was named the 2020 Young Breeder Award winner. A news release from the ...

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 ...

A marked boulder lies on the lawn of the University’s Purebred Dairy Barn. Most days, hundreds of pedestrians and commuters unknowingly pass by the stone outside the Illinois Dairy Farm. But when a ...

MONONA, Iowa - High milk production and top-notch genetics are goals for Lance and Jonna Schutte on their Jo-Lane Farms. "We want to do whatever we can do to be better," said Jonna. The couple and ...

Vernon County is home to many fine dairy operations that have outstanding dairy cows. One of those cows, however, has reached the pinnacle of her breed. Kent Thompson's Brown Swiss cow, Sun-Made ...

The Medlang family has been in the purebred Brown Swiss heifer business for nearly three quarters of a century. That whole thing started when Charles Medlang's father, uncle and grandparents bought ...

June is Dairy Month, and I want to let you know from where your milk originates. First, it does not come from oats, flaxseed, soybeans, almonds, cashews or any other nut. Second, believe it, hemp has ...

Back in the 1970s sometime, we had a big ranching day at the Aspen Historical Society, which I suppose, if one thinks about it, likely makes this a historical narrative. Some people were churning ...