On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, and the potential for disease transmission is worrying, health experts say. On America’s large dairy farms, milking is a vast operation, ...

Scientists say that findings from a small experiment lend hope the outbreak among dairy cattle can potentially be contained. By Carl Zimmer Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting ...

As cattle values climb, accurate identification methods like branding and tagging are helping producers protect ownership.

Animal-product labels at the supermarket can be dizzying. Among them is "grass-fed" beef, which informs us that the cow has eaten mostly or exclusively grass throughout its lifetime—unlike traditional ...

To have a fulfilling life, cows arguably must be allowed outside. But what constitutes a ‘free-range’ cow is ambiguous. For optimum welfare, farmers must balance time outdoors and time indoors. While ...