Linda Rhodes, author of the forthcoming memoir 'Breaking the Barnyard Barrier: A Woman Veterinarian Paves the Way,' shares an exclusive essay with PEOPLE about her trailblazing career as a ...

As the war finally ends, Tristan struggles with his experiences during it and James and Jimmy help Richard with a cow and calf.

Dairy farmers are standing on shaky ground. Milk checks are tight and input costs are up, but replacement heifers and beef-on-dairy calves are providing an unusually strong backstop. As Gregg Doud, ...

Seasoned cow-calf producers know the long list of everything that has to go right for a cow to become pregnant during breeding season. Nutrition, as measured by cow body condition, needs to be right.

The consensus? The team agreed that thin cows are more costly due to potential calving difficulties and a longer infertility ...

Lindsey Vonn once chose a cow over a check after winning a race, and then ended up with a herd.

After more than forty years, a bizarre panel from “The Far Side” comic strip has finally become prophecy. The cartoon depicts a strangely eye-less, bipedal cow standing in front of a bench of ...

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

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A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The ...