When producers talk about hypocalcemia today, the focus has shifted to subclinical hypocalcemia. Unlike clinical milk fever, it’s a disease that doesn’t show any visible signs. “You can’t determine ...

Some 12,000,000 people in the U.S. are infected with the germs of a strange, lingering, milk-borne disease called undulant fever (brucellosis).* So wrote Health Officer Harold Jerome Harris of ...

Many years producers are calving during the early spring with cows grazing lush pastures. When cows that have just calved are grazing cool-season annual pastures producers often find mature cows that ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Cows that suffer from calcium deficiency are also more susceptible to other reproductive diseases and conditions like mastitis. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] I am a worried dairy farmer. Of my six dairy ...

Last weekend I travelled upcountry to visit my folks. It happened that "Esther" one of our dairy cows was about to give birth. We kept vigil to keep Esther company and offer assistance in case she ...

Raw milk or unpasteurised milk is milk that has not undergone pasteurization, which refers to the process of heating liquids ...