Holstein cattle at the UC Davis Dairy Facility. Chromosomes from a legendary bull born in 1962 account for almost 14 percent of the genome in the current Holstein population in the United States. A ...

MANDAN, N.D. (KFYR) - A senior at Mandan High School earned the title of World Champion Dairy Cattle Judger in the Holstein ...

Scientists provide an insightful review of how US dairy industry breeding selection objectives are established, as well as detail opportunities and obstacles related to new technologies for ...

The days of guess work in breeding dairy cattle are gone. Today's DNA sequencing means more productive cows and less pollution. Breeding cattle through artificial insemination began in the 1940’s.

High milk yield in dairy cows is negatively correlated to fertility. Scientists have now found a mutation in a gene sequence that affects this relationship. Scientists have found a genomic deletion ...

It started with a bull named Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief, who had a whopping 16,000 daughters. And 500,000 granddaughters and more than 2 million great-granddaughters. Today, in fact, his genes account ...

The next time you're in the dairy aisle at the supermarket, take a moment to imagine the animals that produced all that milk. Do these cows have horns? Chances are they do, or at least they did at ...

Chad Dechow, a geneticist at Pennsylvania State University who studies dairy cows, is explaining how all of America's cows ended up so similar to each other. He brings up a website on his computer.

Dairy scientists are the Gregor Mendels of the genomics age, developing new methods for understanding the link between genes and living things, all while quadrupling the average cow's milk production ...

Denovo 20723 Columbia heads the latest ranking for young genomic sires, which features an all-new top 10 for the first time since the list was created in 2012. The list of new sires published by the ...