TURLOCK, Calif. – Hundreds of thousands of America’s dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. Dairy ...

Low margins on U.S. dairy farms pushed a lot of cows to slaughter in 2023, but cow numbers now seem to have stabilized, an industry analyst says. Cow slaughter rates were high throughout most of 2023 ...

May 24 (Reuters) - Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in samples from 95 other ...

(CNN) — Meat from a dairy cow that was culled from its herd and sent to slaughter has tested positive for traces of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, but no ...

The dairy industry called it "herd retirement," a pleasant phrase, summoning up images of old cows relaxing in a pasture somewhere in Wisconsin, their productive years behind them after a lifetime of ...

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered a Wyoming County dairy farmer cited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for selling cows that had illegal residues of antibiotics to stop offering the ...