The black-and-white coat of Holstein-Friesian cows is globally recognised as a symbol of dairy farming and a defining trait ...

Holstein cattle at the UC Davis Dairy Facility. Chromosomes from a legendary bull born in 1962 account for almost 14 percent of the genome in the current Holstein population in the United States. A ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Penn 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. "This is ...

The next time you're in the dairy aisle at the supermarket, take a moment to imagine the animals that produced all that milk. Do these cows have horns? Chances are they do, or at least they did at ...

BRATTLEBORO -- In the same thought of the old fishing theory, give someone a cow and they will have milk for a day. But teach them how to care for a cow and they'll have milk for a lifetime. That's ...

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 ...

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. But the ...