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 fair-goer watches on as a cow at the Miracle of Birth Center prepares to give birth at the Minnesota State Fair.

Minnesota State Fair will prohibit nursing dairy cows at Miracle of Birth over bird flu risk The spread in cattle herds of H5N1, often called bird flu, has ramped up biosecurity measures for livestock ...

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — A popular spot 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 ...

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 ...

Third-graders from Armatage Montessori in Minneapolis pet a cow in the CHS Miracle of Birth building during Urban Ag Day at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds on May 8, 2018.

There is going to be a little less mooing at local county fairs this year after the recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at three Central Valley dairies. Last week, state and federal ...

A baby cow made its debut Saturday afternoon at the North Carolina State Fair. The mother went into labor Friday night, and the adorable little calf was born in the children's barn at the fair.

RURAL ALBANY, MINN. - Down a dirt road this week, past the cattle wading in the creek, and up next to a grey barn, a white cow with brown spots calmly submitted to her gussying-up on the eve of a trip ...

GEDDES — When the Dairy Cow Birthing Center debuted at the New York State Fair in 2013, Spruce Haven Farm in Fleming was the first to have its cows featured in the exhibit. Twelve years later, Spruce ...