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 ...

Dairy overproduction, US tariffs on cheese, health threats to livestock, declining breed diversity: The mascot of Switzerland ...

UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: It is our pleasure to share with you that the World Champion Cheese for 2025 is the Bergkaserei Vorderfultigen Gruyere AOP Spezial from Switzerland. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Woo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swiss dairy farmers are prematurely slaughtering cows due to a 39% U.S. tariff imposed by President Trump, which has severely impacted cheese exports. This action, coupled with an abundant milk ...

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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 ...