Holstein cattle at the UC Davis Dairy Facility. Chromosomes from a legendary bull born in 1962 account for almost 14 percent of the genome in the current Holstein population in the United States. A ...

Siemers Holstein Farm, Newton, Wis., has been chosen by the National Dairy Shrine for their 2025 Distinguished Dairy Cattle ...

Virginia has embarked on a new frontier in its ever-expanding agricultural export program, sending the first direct export of Holstein bulls to Russia. Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday the bulls from a ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other. He brings up a website on his computer.

Once upon a time, everyone hoped that the internet, instead of becoming a bottomless pit of iniquity, would be filled with good and interesting information about large cattle. And lo, it is. But the ...

HOLSTEIN sons of Val-Bisson Doorman, proved the star attraction at the Spring Dairy Bull show and sale at Carlisle, last week, siring the three highest priced lots and five of the top 10. Dearest at ...

More than 99 percent of Holstein bulls born using artificial insemination in the last decade trace their male lineage to just two bulls born in the 1960s. Efforts to reconstitute two lost male ...

A barn and farm equipment on Maple Lawn Farms in Fulton were destroyed Sunday by a fire, the Howard County Fire and Rescue Services said. A Holstein bull was killed, and a diesel tractor and about 120 ...