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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A marked boulder lies on the lawn of the University’s Purebred Dairy Barn. Most days, hundreds of pedestrians and commuters unknowingly pass by the stone outside the Illinois Dairy Farm. But when a ...
MONONA, Iowa - High milk production and top-notch genetics are goals for Lance and Jonna Schutte on their Jo-Lane Farms. "We want to do whatever we can do to be better," said Jonna. The couple and ...
The cheese Dave Eagle and his son, Matt, make is aged for months at temperatures around 40 degrees to ensure a bacteria-free product. LIPAN -- How now, brown cow? Pretty well, apparently, because milk ...
It also looks like the end of the Brown Swiss era at the dairy, McCoy said. He said campus officials want the dairy to sell cows of that breed and of the Ayrshire breed, a move that will reduce the ...
Vernon County is home to many fine dairy operations that have outstanding dairy cows. One of those cows, however, has reached the pinnacle of her breed. Kent Thompson's Brown Swiss cow, Sun-Made ...