This answer is fueled by coffee with a splash of milk from a dairy cow. I asked my friend Kimberly Davenport why my morning milk doesn’t come from a beef cow. She’s an expert in cow genetics at ...

Genome sequences of four Indian cow breeds – including that of Vechur, the world’s smallest breed – may reveal how these domestic cattle evolved, diverged and adapted to India’s hot and humid ...

A reader recently emailed me, saying that they were distressed about how modern dairies operate. I replied with some insights gleaned from my six decades’ worth of dairy experience. The majority of ...

SOUTH KIRBY Daisy doesn't look like a cow under pressure, as she falls asleep with her black-rimmed lids drooping, but there's a lot riding on this petite 2-year-old's fluffy white shoulders. Daisy is ...

It all starts with a cow. These gentle, grass-chewing giants are the foundation of an entire food system built on milk. When a dairy cow becomes pregnant around one year of age, she begins a ...

Dairy farmers, especially the smallholders who keep cows on a hectare or two of farmland, must adapt climate-smart practices or hang up their milk jars. This is because the frequent and prolonged ...