Beyond that, there isn’t much difference. However, there are actually more than 250 cattle breeds, bred for milk and meat, but also for work — plowing fields and even pulling wagons.

A world renown dual-purpose cattle breed arrives in Kenya today. With an excellent milk production yielding of 10,000 litres a cow per lactation period and proper feeding regime, Fleckvieh milk is ...

They’ve metamorphosed into a dual-purpose breed useful for conservation grazing, particularly clearing ivy and willow ash, but went out of fashion – in the 1970s, numbers dropped to 30 cows. The ...