Heritage livestock breeds benefit both homesteaders and consumers with their hardiness, adaptability, flavorful meat and genetic diversity. Throughout the centuries, the world’s farmers have ...

Heritage cattle breeds are valued for their ancestry as well as their distinctive physical triats, which make their meat and milk stand out from conventional cattle products. These in-depth ...

Tuttle is among a relatively small group of livestock producers in the U.S. dedicated to raising heritage breeds, whose popularity has waned in a modern era of shifting markets and farming methods.

The breed associations focus on connecting what few heritage farmers are left. The American Milking Devon Cattle Association, for instance, maintains a bank of semen, which they sell to heritage ...

Proponents of 'heritage breeds' say the animals offer unique genetics that help them to resist heat, to forage and to guard against parasites. Rare livestock breeds, derived from farmers of ...

Rare Welsh cattle whose heritage date back more than 1,000 years are at risk of dying out, a survival trust says. The Ancient Cattle of Wales breed has been added to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust ...

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 ...

Advances in selective breeding and artificial insemination have fuelled the global spread of a small number of profitable livestock types. Their popularity has left ever more heritage breeds at ...

Goats, by the tens, traverse freely around the barn at Conner Prairie. Some curl up in corners, while others plop right in the center, unbothered by the waves of children and families weaving ...