Students will not be seeing spots for much longer at Ohio State’s Waterman Dairy Farm. The farm, which has both the larger Holstein dairy cows, spotted black and white, and the smaller, brown Jersey ...

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 ...

Thursday's unveiling of the butter cow for the 2016 Illinois State Fair brought back a few memories for the state's agriculture director, Raymond Poe. This year’s butter cow, named Creampuff, is a 700 ...

The Central Jersey Holstein Show was held on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair. There were a total of 62 Holstein cows that were judged by Alan Hostetter of Annville, ...

Daily infusions with a chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness were shown to increase calcium levels in the blood of Holstein cows and the milk of Jersey cows that had just given birth ...

Jersey cows are in Tina Fey’s new movie, “Admission.” Actually, the bovine beauties are not of the light brown Jersey breed, but the black-and-white Holsteins, the most-common type of milk cow around.

Almost everyone in the cattle business knows these two things: (1) the feeder cattle market has demonstrated tremendous strength in reaching and sustaining record price levels during the past year, ...

Sterling, Conn. -- A holy cow in Connecticut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf with a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross was born last week at a dairy farm in ...

Karlie, a Jersey cow that sold for a world-record $170,000 on Monday, March 25, 2013, at an auction on Onondaga Hill, is led around the auction ring by Gene Henderson. Karlie was owned by Aaron and ...

American cheesemakers are hungering for a wider variety of dairy cows because their milk makes a finer cheese than the standard Holstein. At Cowgirl Creamery in Washington, D.C., co-owner Sue Conley ...