Susan Spadaro wasn’t expecting to get emotional about auctioning off 100 of her family’s Brown Swiss and 25 Ayrshire cows on Thursday. “We’ve just always had a passion and love for these animals and ...

DES MOINES — For nearly six decades, Lee Barber brought prize Brown Swiss dairy cows to the Iowa State Fair. Not this year. The reason: the bird flu outbreak racing through dairy herds across the ...

MANITOWOC - The National Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders’ Association recently announced that Mitch Kappelman, of Manitowoc, was named the 2020 Young Breeder Award winner. A news release from the ...

Brown Swiss dairy cows — with soft brown eyes and a smooth chocolatey-colored coat— are kinda cute for a cow. Young Shippensburg Community Fair exhibitors AnnMarie Deaven and Skyler Reichard are fond ...

OELWEIN — Dennis Worden bought his first Brown Swiss when he was 12. He got a loan to buy two open heifers from Earl Anderson, of Garner. "When one of those turned out to be a non-breeder, we went ...

CALMAR, Iowa — Tanner Mashek loves to show his Brown Swiss. He brought five heifers and three cows to show at the Iowa State Fair. In the Brown Swiss Youth Show, the six animals he showed placed first ...

Dear Dr Othieno, Many thanks for your very informative articles. I am not only a dairy farmer but also a lover of livestock breeds. For a long time, I have been keeping Friesian crosses. Recently, on ...

The Medlang family has been in the purebred Brown Swiss heifer business for nearly three quarters of a century. That whole thing started when Charles Medlang's father, uncle and grandparents bought ...

Sandy Creek, NY -- It's morning and the cow barn at the Oswego County Fair already is bustling. Children, cows and parents pack the building. Everyone, it seems, is doing something. Some are getting ...

Orbec Sherry, a lifelong Viroqua resident, was honored by the Brown Swiss Historical Society at the 2015 National Brown Swiss Convention. Sherry (1896-1988) received the Historical Master Breeders ...

Dairy overproduction, US tariffs on cheese, health threats to livestock, declining breed diversity: The mascot of Switzerland ...