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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WATERLOO — Traditions at the National Cattle Congress continue to run deep at the 114th annual fair. The fair began Wednesday afternoon and continues until Sunday evening. Inside one of the ...
CALMAR, Iowa — Tanner Mashek loves to show his Brown Swiss. He brought five heifers and three cows to show at the Iowa State Fair. In the Brown Swiss Youth Show, the six animals he showed placed first ...
Dear Dr Othieno, Many thanks for your very informative articles. I am not only a dairy farmer but also a lover of livestock breeds. For a long time, I have been keeping Friesian crosses. Recently, on ...
A cow transported by helicopter after its summer in the Swiss Alps near the Klausen Pass, August 27, 2021. ARND WIEGMANN / REUTERS Pastoral, pristine scenery, rolling pastures that seem greener and ...