FRESNO — More than 4,800 dairy cows at risk of carrying tuberculosis are being slaughtered this week in Central California, where nearly 16,000 cattle in the country’s largest milk-producing ...

TURLOCK, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals.

Dairy cow slaughter, on the other hand, has increased in the face of year-over-year higher prices. Last year the U.S. all-milk price averaged $15.70 per cwt, while this year the first quarter is ...

Dairy cow slaughter year-to-date is 4 percent higher than 2016 and in recent weeks has averaged 7 percent higher compared to the 1 percent higher seen in the first third of the year. The beef herd, on ...

Low margins on U.S. dairy farms pushed a lot of cows to slaughter in 2023, but cow numbers now seem to have stabilized, an industry analyst says. Cow slaughter rates […] ...

Slaughtered dairy cows account for about 6 percent of all beef production in the U.S. and about 18 percent of ground beef, according to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

OLYMPIA — A Grant County dairy cow sent to slaughter earlier this month is suspected of having had bovine tuberculosis, Washington state agriculture officials said Thursday.

Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in samples from 95 other cattle, the U.S ...

Associated Press, FileJason Jordan milks cows, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at his farm in Mount Crawford, Va.. ... Dairy cows head for slaughter as milk prices sour.

It is not just elderly cows that are going to slaughter, said Jon Dolieslager, owner of the Tulare County Stockyard in the heart of California dairy country. The 262,500 slaughtered nationally in ...