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.

Computer scientists have devised a methodology that can recognize Holstein cows in the milking station by the pattern of their coat using artificial intelligence. The long-term vision is to develop a ...

A decision to attend graduate school that involved selling the dairy herd and developing a beef herd profoundly affected the ...

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. Other ...

Most dairy farmers treat their heifers like little princesses. Not only are these the potential mothers of more cows, but they’re also the day-to-day producers of a dairy farm’s bounty. Each time a ...

Philadelphia, August 24, 2020 - Since 1960, Holstein dairy cows have exhibited a substantial decline in fertility, with serious economic consequences for farmers. Genetic selection programs in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Turns out cows can be potty trained as ...

The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to... Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 ...