If you’re looking forward to watching a calf being born at the Minnesota State Fair, you may be disappointed. On Friday, the fair announced new precautions at the ‘Miracle of Birth Center.’ “Any cow ...

A popular event at the Minnesota State Fair that features an array of baby farm animals and their moms will go on this year — but without birthing cows as fears of bird flu create worry within the ...

The calving pen is where some of the most costly and preventable problems on a dairy begin. And while a hard birth might not ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dairies say USDA aid kept them afloat as bird flu hit milk supplies, but critics say it perpetuates risky industrial farming.

A rare set of dairy cow triplets were recently born at Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley, the farm said in a Facebook post. Farmers were wrapping up after two calves were born when the cow started to ...