Committing to strategies that enhance dairy cow genetics won’t yield instant results for Marcus Ferraro but he is likely to get ...

When Eastridge came to OSU in 1986, there were five breeds of dairy cows: Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Ayrshire. Shortly after he arrived, the farm got rid of all but the Holstein ...

Holstein Association USA, the world’s largest dairy breed association, was established in 1885. The Holstein Association’s professional staff of classifiers evaluates 17 individual traits in ...

“We’re feeding it to cows to reduce methane emissions, and we hope to see at least a 40% to 50% reduction in methane of dairy cows,” says Heins. Heins says the early results are promising.

Today, roughly 257,000 dairy cows roam Washington's pastures and farms. Back in 1867, there were just 5,000 dairy cows in Washington. ... with modern dairy breeds around for hundreds of years, ...