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 Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

The same version of the bird flu that has caused the most serious human illnesses in North America has now turned up in dairy cows. Cattle in Nevada tested positive for the H5N1 viral variant D1.1, ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland — Last week, Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A video from Reuters showed the massive amounts of rock, ...

Orbec Sherry, a lifelong Viroqua resident, was honored by the Brown Swiss Historical Society at the 2015 National Brown Swiss Convention. Sherry (1896-1988) received the Historical Master Breeders ...

The brightly colored award ribbons hanging from the Miller family’s backdoor illustrate a summer of hard work for John Luke and Henry. A black and white snapshot of their great-grandfather holding an ...

PERREFITTE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland votes this Sunday on an issue of national importance that has divided the Alpine country - whether to subsidise farmers who let their cows' and goats' ...

What happens when cows are allowed to decide for themselves whether they want to be indoors or outdoors? When calves grow up ...