Columnist Jason Schmidt didn't realize how much of an impact one cow named "Buffalo" can have on life's outlook.

VEBLEN, South Dakota — Behind the bleary eyes of workers streaming in and out of a dairy farm dormitory here in Kristi Noem’s ...

Thousands of milk producers across the country will receive surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National ...

Dairy farms have expanded steadily since the 1970s and now compete for economic strength with beef cattle operations.

Clearing land for cattle and cows is the single biggest driver of rainforest loss in the Amazon. This "hotel for cows" in ...

The Agriculture Department’s latest preliminary data shows January milk production hit 19.1 billion pounds, up 0.1% from Jan. 2024, following a 0.5% decline in December. Output in the top 24 states ...

An unprecedented shift in the U.S. dairy cattle population could signal uncertainty ahead in terms of milk production, cow numbers, and prices – for both the milk and the animals. At the center of the ...

Setting up a commercial and stud operation featuring rare breed cattle has proved challenging for one Camperdown dairy farmer.

thanks to remarkable growth in its dairy cow population. In the past decade, South Dakota’s dairy industry has been thriving with its dairy cow population more than doubling, marking a 117% increase, ...

to be all about milk and other dairy products. It isn’t, and hasn’t had cows on its farm since the 1980s. But it’s big in bacon and other pork products and is one of the vendors passing out samples of ...