This answer is fueled by coffee with a splash of milk from a dairy cow. I asked my friend Kimberly Davenport why my morning milk doesn’t come from a beef cow. She’s an expert in cow genetics at ...

It all starts with a cow. These gentle, grass-chewing giants are the foundation of an entire food system built on milk. When a dairy cow becomes pregnant around one year of age, she begins a ...

LANSING — Michigan ranks No. 1 in the country for producing the most milk per cow — and has done so for the past few years. Although not the nation’s biggest overall milk producer, the state’s ...