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 ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG — A laid-back Brown Swiss named Groovy beat 205 other cows on Friday to win the 106th Pennsylvania Farm Show Supreme Champion Dairy Cow award. The 1,400-pound cow owned by Hannah Balthaser ...

DES MOINES — For nearly six decades, Lee Barber brought prize Brown Swiss dairy cows to the Iowa State Fair. Not this year. The reason: the bird flu outbreak racing through dairy herds across the ...

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 ...

The Medlang family has been in the purebred Brown Swiss heifer business for nearly three quarters of a century. That whole thing started when Charles Medlang's father, uncle and grandparents bought ...

CALMAR, Iowa — Tanner Mashek loves to show his Brown Swiss. He brought five heifers and three cows to show at the Iowa State Fair. In the Brown Swiss Youth Show, the six animals he showed placed first ...

WATERLOO — Traditions at the National Cattle Congress continue to run deep at the 114th annual fair. The fair began Wednesday afternoon and continues until Sunday evening. Inside one of the ...

Sandy Creek, NY -- It's morning and the cow barn at the Oswego County Fair already is bustling. Children, cows and parents pack the building. Everyone, it seems, is doing something. Some are getting ...

Orbec Sherry, a lifelong Viroqua resident, was honored by the Brown Swiss Historical Society at the 2015 National Brown Swiss Convention. Sherry (1896-1988) received the Historical Master Breeders ...

Dear Dr Othieno, Many thanks for your very informative articles. I am not only a dairy farmer but also a lover of livestock breeds. For a long time, I have been keeping Friesian crosses. Recently, on ...