A P.E.I. family's passion for a dairy breed called Milking Shorthorns is fuelling a resurgence in popularity, along with help from new genetic research in the Maritimes.

The Munro family's 150-year association with the cattle industry has proudly been Australia-wide, due to the enduring and ...

A major milestone of the agricultural revolution is in danger of being overlooked in this year of anniversaries. In 1822, George Coates of Carlton, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, published the world’s ...

Until the early 20th century, the Shorthorn was used as a dual-purpose animal but further specialist breeding has developed it into to distinctive sections of dairy and beef animals. Recognised as the ...

Justin Vogel looks at a Shorthorn bull. He and his wife Whitney raise and sell Shorthorns. Their herd started with Whitney's 4-H cattle. Photo taken Feb. 27, 2023, near Rogers, North Dakota.

Reginald C. Acton is a name synonymous with the Shorthorn breed of cattle not only in New Brunswick and in the Atlantic Region, but throughout Canada. In 1946, after taking his discharge from the ...

BEEF shorthorn cattle will make their first appearance for 30 years at the Royal Welsh Centenary Show in July. Last exhibited on the Llanelwedd showground in 1974, the originally dual-purpose ...

The formal recording of Shorthorns began with the publication of the Coates’ Herd Book in 1822, the first pedigree herd book for cattle in the world, which recorded 710 bulls and 850 cows. After ...

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A family in Belmont, P.E.I., is on a mission to rebuild the popularity of a breed of dairy cattle called Milking Shorthorns. Three generations of the Barrett family have raised and bred them, and they ...