SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — The folks at Olson's Dairy are a little excited. Their cow, Thane Jesse Vigor Jessa, received the JP Eves Award for milk production, and she also was awarded a plaque for top ...

DES MOINES — For nearly six decades, Lee Barber brought prize Brown Swiss dairy cows to the Iowa State Fair. Not this year. The reason: the bird flu outbreak racing through dairy herds across the ...

HARRISBURG — A laid-back Brown Swiss named Groovy beat 205 other cows on Friday to win the 106th Pennsylvania Farm Show Supreme Champion Dairy Cow award. The 1,400-pound cow owned by Hannah Balthaser ...

Brown Swiss dairy cows — with soft brown eyes and a smooth chocolatey-colored coat— are kinda cute for a cow. Young Shippensburg Community Fair exhibitors AnnMarie Deaven and Skyler Reichard are fond ...

Susan Spadaro wasn’t expecting to get emotional about auctioning off 100 of her family’s Brown Swiss and 25 Ayrshire cows on Thursday. “We’ve just always had a passion and love for these animals and ...

The Medlang family has been in the purebred Brown Swiss heifer business for nearly three quarters of a century. That whole thing started when Charles Medlang's father, uncle and grandparents bought ...

After high school, Calvin Nisly, of Partridge, Kan., wanted to wash his hands of the family dairy. He enjoyed milking cows growing up, but after high school, he did not want to be tied down to a dairy ...

The country’s dairy farmers produced a bumper harvest of milk, but higher U.S. duties have forced them to consider ways to cut back, including slaughtering cows.