My mother was a country girl. She was raised on a farm and spent most of her childhood in a small town, and she had many strange sayings I remember as clearly as if I’d just learned them – pieces of ...

TYLER, Texas (KETK) — An old folklore tale suggests that when the cows are lying down, it’s going to rain – but is that true? There are millions of cows across the state of Texas, so many people are ...

Before people had data and complex computer models to predict a stormy morning or a sunny afternoon, they had weather lore. For centuries, observations about the sky, animals, plants, and other ...

Equipping a farm with a milking parlor requires moving groups of cows from their pens to the part of the barn where milking takes place. The task of moving cows, carried out two or three times each ...

Dairy cows tend to stand as a heat stress response, but the increased tendency to stand adversely affects their productivity and welfare. Thus, taking measures against heat stress before cows spend ...