Switzerland raises about 1.5 million cattle in a country where only about one-third of the land is used for crop farming. That reality shaped how towns grew, how food moved, and how farmers earned ...

Switzerland is often associated with mountains, trains, and precision engineering, but another feature shapes the country just as much: cows. Despite its modest size and relatively small population, ...

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 ...

The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is reddish in colour with white markings, and is kept for milk and meat. There he was: The gorgeous beast — the well toned skin is wine red, it is neatly horned and ...

As a dairy farmer, Boris Beuret tends to more than 60 cows in the gently rolling meadows of his farm in Switzerland's Jura region. Their milk, herbaceous and nutty from the tender grasses they graze ...

The heat is now hitting the country's dairy herds, with cows producing less milk as they burn extra energy to stay cool.

KLAUSENPASS, Switzerland (WABC) -- Cows injured during their summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows got a jump on their healthier herdmates on Friday when they got helicopter rides down the ...

A dozen cows in Klausenpass, Switzerland were recently flown to safety via helicopter in an epic rescue. Each year, about 1,000 cows travel from higher ground in the Swiss Alps to the Urnerboden ...