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Trump has taken aim at dairy — and Canada's supply management program as a whole — many times before. But dairy farmers worry ...
Willy Bokma and his family have a large dairy south of Twin Falls, Idaho. The cows are Holsteins, Jerseys and crossbreds. The ...
Summer Hammann, a 2024 Barron High School graduate now attending UW-Madison for dairy science, is one of six from the U.S.
Looking at inbreeding in the population of Holstein cattle was the focus of a recent webinar by Iowa State University dairy extension and outreach. John Cole from the Council of Dairy Cattle Breeding ...
The verdict in 2009 dashed Fribourg’s hopes: the Chilean cows were not sufficiently different from the local varieties and the Holstein cow to qualify as descendants of the Fribourg breed.
A cow’s resilience is heritable, ranging from 0.01 to 0.2 heritability, an American-based study on cow stress responses has found. The findings of the study, which was conducted by Ms Fiona ...
Researchers have identified various distinctive immune cells in cow's milk, creating potential avenues for enhancing animal health and milk production—as detailed in a study in Animal Nutriomics.
Herein, 45 Holstein cows [categorized into three groups based on β-casein A1A1, A1A2, and A2A2 genotypes (N = 15)] with the same feeding management and litter size were enrolled to explore differences ...
A study published in Genome Biology opens new possibilities to improve production efficiency in the cattle industry and potentially animal agriculture more broadly. A team of researchers at Baylor ...
Podcast co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore whether A2 milk actually provides relief for those who can’t consume dairy ...
Two decades ago, a dairy cow in Mabton, Washington, was diagnosed with the first known case of mad cow disease in U.S. history. The Madrigal family is still feeling the effects.
Nearly two decades ago on December 23rd, a lone holstein cow “stole Christmas.” The milk cow from Canada had been shipped to Washington state in Mabton. It was the first mad cow disease, or ...