But most importantly, mammal brains have adapted to make milk. When a dairy cow feeds its calf or gets milked, a chemical ...

In a few years, dairy farmers will be able to order special genetically-modified cows that produce 20% more milk than common cows. Researchers in Argentina have developed a strain of cow that produces ...

PRINCETON, Minn. -- Farmer Dennis Haubenschild is testing a new source of power: cows. At his family's dairy Haubenschild is converting manure to electricity and simultaneously reducing odor in an ...

A new international study led by McGill University in collaboration with Jefo Nutrition shows that supplementing dairy cow diets with microencapsulated B-vitamins can significantly reduce greenhouse ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign animal scientist Matt Wheeler, pictured, helped develop the first transgenic cow to produce human insulin in her milk. An unassuming brown bovine from the south ...

It all starts with a cow. These gentle, grass-chewing giants are the foundation of an entire food system built on milk. When a dairy cow becomes pregnant around one year of age, she begins a ...

Millions of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world don’t have reliable access to insulin. Due to their bodies’ inability to produce the hormone, they have to inject it to ensure that ...

LANSING — Michigan ranks No. 1 in the country for producing the most milk per cow — and has done so for the past few years. Although not the nation’s biggest overall milk producer, the state’s ...