They milk 140 to 175 Holsteins, Brown Swiss and Holstein-Brown Swiss cross cows. Some Brown Swiss and a few Holsteins are registered. The cows are housed in a free-stall barn.

The Illinois State Fair’s 2025 butter cow is officially chilling in the Dairy Building on the fairgrounds in Springfield. Gov. JB Pritzker and fair officials unveiled the butter cow on Thursday, the ...

As we all know, we get older with every minute of every day. But what has that aging process accomplished? Perhaps a walk through some history will help answer that question. During a recent visit to ...

Hazel Grace clearly knew the drill, and handled the spotlight very well as she stood patiently in the large open stanchion, bleachers full of fairgoers watching. Characteristic of Jersey cows and ...

For example, the study showed reallocating land currently used for dairy cow feed to grow fruits and vegetables resulted in a 9.9 percent increase in GHG emissions and reduced supply of calcium ...