Have you ever seen a cow get a pedicure? It was one of the highlights of our recent trip to Katherine Boelen’s family dairy farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa. We spent a good 10 minutes watching an ...

Picture this: A dairy barn full of cows being milked, fed and cleaned up after, but there’s no farmer in sight. Sounds a bit unusual, right? Well, it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. Thanks to ...

Cow cuddling, ice cream churning and farm tours are among the tactics dairy farmers are employing to compensate for low milk prices ...

If you have even just a few acres and space to keep a cow, with enough pasture area to provide her with grazing, a milk cow can supply your family with milk. This can be milk for drinking and/or ...

In life, all of us have challenges. But when considering the ones farmers face, ours seem minor. For farmers, they are ...

A dairy farmer’s delight is when his cow is producing lots of milk. And lots of milk is what Kenya needs right now if assertions by Agriculture CS Peter Munya are anything to go by. Alex Gathii, a ...