WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to embark on a year-long study beginning next month that will test samples for evidence of highly pathogenic avian influenza from former dairy cattle moved into meat…

Everyday consumers and the dairy industry have not seen broad changes to the milk on store shelves or the broader markets four months after the first cattle tested positive for bird flu. While individual farmers…

A Michigan dairy employee is the second known person to contract bird flu while working with infected cattle in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The person had…

News reports and updates have been published over the past several weeks about the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) impacting dairy herds in several states. Investigations are ongoing and information continues to surface…

HUMBOLDT — For Blake Mueller, farming is all about family. He always hoped to return home after college and take over the farm where his father, Curt, had raised dairy cattle. It’s a legacy that…

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Wearing sweaters, small kids (of the goat variety) went springing over hay-lined pens in the Good Karma Micro-Dairy barn in Russell County — where Erin and Doug Renard milk goats…

It used to be that Elsie the Cow would let down her milk to only those she liked. Today, that ?person? may be a robot. And sadly, or not, Elsie could care less, and in…

Iola High School’s FFA chapter pulled in several key awards March 7 at the Allen Community College Dairy Cattle and Poultry Show. Iola’s B team took home first place in poultry, led by Lorie Carpenter’s…