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

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 ...

NPR's John Ydstie takes a moment to note that in New Zealand they are now breeding cows that produce skimmed milk. Marge the cow is worried about your fat intake and she's doing something about it. 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 ...

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 ...

A Canadian cow has produced the most milk ever. The animal, named Smurf, resides just east of Canada's capital, Ottawa. What to Read Next "That's the equivalent of more than one million glasses of ...

OSAGE COUNTY - Some dairy farmers are using fans and sprinklers to keep cows cool, because the summer heat could make them produce less milk now, which would send prices higher in the fall.