ELKADER, Iowa — Tucked into the hills on Gunder Road north of Elkader, Jerry and Wanda Brink and Jerry’s brothers, Jim and George, and their families raise purebred Fleckvieh Simmental and Hereford ...

Aged Swiss Gruyère triumphs at the World Cheese Awards, beating over 5,000 rivals as judges endure a pungent, palate-stretching marathon of global dairy.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. I first came across a breed of cattle known as Fleckvieh when I was in vet school. It has several positive attributes ...

But Colac region farmer Luke McCarthy hopes to change that as a keen exponent of the red-and-white breed for the past decade. Pronounced ‘fleck-fee’, McCarthy family now joins 100 per cent of their ...

Respiratory diseases are among the most common ailments in calves. Hubert Pausch from the Chair of Animal Breeding at the Technical University of Munich and his team have now been able to trace a gene ...

There’s no doubt the U.S. cattle inventory continues to shrink. The latest numbers from USDA out this week showed the U.S. cattle inventory dropped 2% year-over-year with 87.2 million head of cattle ...

I first came across a breed of cattle known as Fleckvieh when I was in vet school. It has several positive attributes but what stood out for me is the fact that it is a dual purpose breed. Though this ...

A Swiss Gruyère from Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen wins best cheese at the 2025 World Cheese Awards after judging over 5,000 ...