Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief was one of the most prolific bulls in the history of Holstein cattle breeding — but he also introduced a lethal gene into the population, responsible for an estimated half ...

Lacking expertise in assisted bovine reproductive technology, Russia spends more than $300 million a year importing live animals. Now a long-sought deal promises to do wonders for Russian dairy ...

More than 99 percent of Holstein bulls born using artificial insemination in the last decade trace their male lineage to just two bulls born in the 1960s. Efforts to reconstitute two lost male ...

A Holstein bull on a truck headed to a slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania escaped and roamed along a busy highway in Souderton, Bucks County on Sept. 7. The animal was eventually captured, but a ...

In addition to moving more cows through the parlor, selecting for faster-milking cows (or selecting against slower-milking ...

Facing economic challenges, dairy farmers are increasingly crossbreeding some of their Holstein cows with beef breed bulls to add value to surplus calves born in their herds. In an analysis of ...

A young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor ...

G. FRANKE, of Garfield Township, had a narrow escape from death today when he was attacked and trampled by a large Holstein bull at the slaughter house of Joseph Zimmerman, southwest of the city.