Facing economic challenges, dairy farmers are increasingly crossbreeding some of their Holstein cows with beef breed bulls to add value to surplus calves born in their herds. In an analysis of almost ...

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 ...

Some Holstein dairy cattle, particularly those with white coat coloration, naturally fend off the horn fly, a parasitic insect known to cause stress and disease in grazing cattle, according to new ...

Willy Bokma and his family have a large dairy south of Twin Falls, Idaho. The cows are Holsteins, Jerseys and crossbreds. The crossbred and composite cows (part Holstein, part Jersey) are bred for ...

A sublime and tremendously moving portrait of the life of an English dairy cow named Luma, Andrea Arnold’s “Cow” is a real-life bovine “Bambi” and the second 2022 film to land on my 10 best list, ...

They made significant strides in understanding how dairy cattle convert this complex plant matter—plant material rich in cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin—into high-nutrient milk. Lignocellulose, a ...

Feeding dairy cows unsold fruit, vegetables and bakery waste can maintain milk production while improving fibre digestibility ...

Most dairy farmers treat their heifers like little princesses. Not only are these the potential mothers of more cows, but they’re also the day-to-day producers of a dairy farm’s bounty. Each time a ...