WELCH, Minn. — Melodee Smith wanted to raise livestock, but she wanted something that wouldn't eat her out of house and home. She discovered yak. They eat way less than beef cattle and they don't eat ...

Melodee Smith just wanted one yak when she drove to Cold Spring, Minn., years ago. When she returned to Clear Spring Farm in Welch, Minn., she had seven. Now, with 35 yak in her herd, and nine more on ...

ASA, Minn. -- In Minnesota's Vasa Township, along County Road 7, is a piece of land that, at first glance, seems to hold nothing more than similar stretches of land throughout the surrounding rolling ...

When Lynn Taylor retired to North Idaho, he wanted to raise something fun and exotic, not your standard cows or sheep. He had no idea a decade later his “life partner” would be a 1,140-pound Tibetan ...

This article was originally published on April 11, 2025. Blake Mathys grew up on a central Ohio farm, going to exotic animal auctions with his father. They collected Scottish Highland cows, Jacob ...