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Time of India
07-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
7 biggest and top cow breeds in the world
Across the globe, certain cow breeds stand out for their immense size, strength, and adaptability. From the towering Chianina of Italy to the sturdy South Devon in the UK, these breeds play a vital role in agriculture. Other notable giants include the Maine-Anjou, Glan Cattle, German Angus, Montbéliarde, and Parthenais, each contributing uniquely to farming heritage and sustainability. When we think of cows, size might not be the first thing that comes to mind, while some of these cattle breeds are unusually small, some breeds are absolute giants. Across the world, several cow breeds are well known not only for their impressive size but also for their strength, intelligence, adaptability to climates, and centuries-old lineages. These breeds are also highly priced in agriculture for their appearance but also for their contribution to farming heritage and sustainability. Here are seven of the biggest and best cow breeds in the world Chianina Originating from central Italy, particularly Tuscany, the Chianina is the largest and one of the oldest cattle breeds in the world. These cows can reach a height of up to 2 meters and weigh more than 1,700 kg. They are popular for their bright white coats and black skin pigment, they are highly resilient to heat and diseases. Historically used as draught animals, Chianinas are calm, powerful, and highlymuscular, making them iconic symbols of Italian farming heritage. South Devon Nicknamed 'The Gentle Giant,' the South Devon is the largest native cattle breed in the UK. With bulls averaging 1,600 kg and also reaching 2,000 kg, these animals are known for their quiet temperament and strong build. This breed originated in Devon's rich pastures, thand are incredibly durable, often working or reproducing well into old age. Their friendly nature and adaptability to different climates have helped them gain popularity beyond the UK. Maine-Anjou Found in western France, the Maine-Anjou is a powerful breed with bulls averaging around 1,400 kg. These cattle are known for their strong frames, excellent maternal instincts, and adaptability to various environments. While some bulls may be temperamental, the cows are generally calm and nurturing, raising healthy and strong calves. Their large size and capability to endure strength make them a favourite in many farming regions across Europe and North America. Glan Cattle This cattle breed mainly belongs to southwest Germany, which are a traditional dual-purpose breed known for their multipurpose usage and strength. Weighing up to 1,200 kg, they are medium-to-large in build and often well recognised by their solid-coloured coats and strong, compact bodies. Though not as widespread as other breeds, Glan cattle have historic significance and are now part of conservation efforts in Germany to protect rare native livestock breeds. German Angus German Angus cattle are a crossbreed developed in Germany, as a combination of the native German cows with Scottish Angus stock. They typically weigh around 1,200 kg and are known for their calm nature and hardiness. These cattle adapt well to varied weather conditions and are widely appreciated for their ease of handling. Their solid black or reddish coat and solid, muscular build make them one of the more sturdy and manageable large breeds. Montbéliarde Originally from the Montbéliard region of eastern France, this breed is widely admired for its balance of strength, stamina, and productivity. With weights reaching up to 1,200 kg, Montbéliardes are strong cows with reddish-pied coats and white faces. They are also known for their calm nature and ability to adapt to both flat pastures and mountainous terrain. Their endurance have made them popular in dairy-focused mixed farming systems across Europe. Parthenais The Parthenais is a historical breed from western France that has seen a growth in popularity in recent decades. With bulls weighing up to 1,150 kg, these cows are muscular, flexible, and highly efficient in terms of energy use. Known for their quiet nature and solid build, Parthenais cattle have popula ever since in traditional French agriculture. Their light-coloured coats and excellent foraging abilities make them ideal for a variety of rural landscapes. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Business Wire
12-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Specialities Inc. Partnership with Fromagerie Milleret
MILLINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Specialities ®, Inc. is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Fromagerie Milleret of France. Founded in 1921 in Franche-Comté by Henri Milleret, the cheese factory continues to be family-owned and has been dedicated to cheese production for three generations. One of the standout features of Fromagerie Milleret is its commitment to quality milk. All the milk used in their cheeses is sourced from local farms within an average radius of 40 km from the dairy and is processed within 48 hours of collection. The predominant Montbéliarde breed of cows, recognized for their distinctive white coats with brown spots, contributes to the exceptional quality of their milk. Fromagerie Milleret specializes in fine cheeses, particularly their signature tender, soft-ripened cheese made with summer truffles from Italy. Their creamy Brie cheese, which is free from colors, preservatives, or additives, exemplifies the excellence of cheese produced by Fromagerie Milleret. With Milleret Fromagerie as a valued partner, Specialities, Inc. will continue to provide U.S. consumers with wonderful opportunities to discover new and exciting products. Founded in 1991, Specialities, Inc. is a respected importer, distributor, and category builder of specialty, value-added food products for the U.S. deli and specialty markets, as well as select quality-driven food service distributors. Our best-in-class products are sourced from both domestic and international origins. Please join us on June 28 – July 1st, 2025, at the Summer Fancy Food Show in the JAVITS CENTER, NYC, to learn more about this and other innovative products.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Specialities Inc. Partnership with Fromagerie Milleret
MILLINGTON, N.J., June 12, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Specialities®, Inc. is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Fromagerie Milleret of France. Founded in 1921 in Franche-Comté by Henri Milleret, the cheese factory continues to be family-owned and has been dedicated to cheese production for three generations. One of the standout features of Fromagerie Milleret is its commitment to quality milk. All the milk used in their cheeses is sourced from local farms within an average radius of 40 km from the dairy and is processed within 48 hours of collection. The predominant Montbéliarde breed of cows, recognized for their distinctive white coats with brown spots, contributes to the exceptional quality of their milk. Fromagerie Milleret specializes in fine cheeses, particularly their signature tender, soft-ripened cheese made with summer truffles from Italy. Their creamy Brie cheese, which is free from colors, preservatives, or additives, exemplifies the excellence of cheese produced by Fromagerie Milleret. With Milleret Fromagerie as a valued partner, Specialities, Inc. will continue to provide U.S. consumers with wonderful opportunities to discover new and exciting products. Founded in 1991, Specialities, Inc. is a respected importer, distributor, and category builder of specialty, value-added food products for the U.S. deli and specialty markets, as well as select quality-driven food service distributors. Our best-in-class products are sourced from both domestic and international origins. Please join us on June 28 – July 1st, 2025, at the Summer Fancy Food Show in the JAVITS CENTER, NYC, to learn more about this and other innovative products. View source version on Contacts Media: Ron Schinbeckler. Fromo1@ 908-647-6485.
Agriland
21-04-2025
- Automotive
- Agriland
Watch: Offaly family win Merlo Multifarmer competition
Merlo is on a mission to bring the benefits of telehandlers to Irish farmers and, to help this campaign along, it has awarded the use of a Multifarmer 34.7 for a year to the winner of a mega competition held in conjunction with Agriland. The winner of the competition, first announced at Ploughing 2024, has the free use of the telehandler for a year, or 1,000 hours, whichever comes first, and along with the loader itself there will be a bucket, pallet forks, and a muck fork/grab as part of the package. Michael Guinan from Co. Offaly is the lucky farmer drawn from the hat of 35,000 entries, and he will enjoy the use of the machine on the mixed beef and dairy unit he farms with his wife Concepta, and son Kevin. The family-run farm has 120 cows on a split holding of 300ac, utilising two Lely robots to cope with the milking, while bull calves are raised to finish at 18-20 months, making 380-400kg plus. However, this is not a standard black and white herd; the breed is Montbéliarde, which originates in the east of France where the milk is appreciated for its cheese-making qualities. The Montbéliarde breed is rare in Ireland but it performs well in both both beef and dairy enterprises Bridging the gap Daily farming operations on the Guinan farm are faced with a significant challenge in that the Grand Canal neatly divides it into two with an original stone bridge crossing the cut – a bridge which is not designed for modern machinery. A tight turn onto a narrow bridge imposes severe restrictions on machinery use This, unfortunately, means that a good deal of roadwork needs to be undertaken throughout the year as wider and less manoeuvrable tractors have to undertake a six-mile round trip to the other side, although stock and smaller machines can cross the bridge. Currently the tractor fleet comprises two McCormicks, one with a loader, and a John Deere that is also fitted with a loader, although it is the McCormick which does most of the materials handling. Yes, it's meant to look like this. The chassis can be levelled to the left or right to compensate for uneven ground The farm has already carried out some research into upgrading the loader tractor, with a used loader of a different brand considered, but now that the opportunity has arisen to try the Multifarmer out for a year, the timing has been ideal for this Offaly farm. Loader type Michael's other son, Damion, has experience of telehandlers in the UK and has been urging his father to consider this type of loader. With the arrival of the Merlo Multifarmer, the practicalities of using this type of machine can be fully put to the test. One of the first field tasks for the Multifarmer will be preparing the maize ground Michael himself is already an enthusiast of the Multifarmer concept, which takes the basic design of a normal telehandler and attaches a three-point linkage, hydraulic services, and a power take-off (PTO) to the rear of the frame that extends further backwards than a normal telehandler chassis. Unique to Merlo It is this feature that is of particular interest to the family, as the ability to use the Multifarmer for field tasks as well as the usual lifting and loading jobs, gives the farm a powerful addition to the tractor fleet. The versatility gained by taking a loader and enabling it to work as a standard tractor is greatly appreciated by the Guinan family One of the first tasks the machine, outside of the yard, is power harrowing the maize ground, which, as Kevin points out, will nicely bed the Deutz engine in and confirm just how well it can cope with field work. L-r: Cormac Farrelly, managing director, Agriland, winning farmer, Kevin Guinan, and Helen Selkin, Merlo The loader was supplied by Merlo agents, FJS Plant of Kildare, and officially present by Cormac Farrelly, managing director of Agriland, and Helen Selkin of Merlo UK and Ireland this week. Farrelly said: 'We were delighted to partner with Merlo to provide a farmer with the opportunity to carry out a multitude of work on farm over the course of a year, that they might not otherwise have been able to complete without equipment such as the Multifarmer. 'I hope it makes the operations on the Guinan farm that bit more feasible over the coming 12 months and no doubt this exceptional piece of kit will be put to immediate use.' Helen Selkin of Merlo added: 'For Merlo, the Guinan family are actually the ideal winners of this competition. 'The Multifarmer is going to do everything that they need; traditionally they have been using a tractor loader and they're really excited to see what this machine is going to give them.'
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
After a few detours, French boys rise to the occasion of cheese-making in 'Holy Cow'
The sunlit opening of French writer-director Louise Courvoisier's punchy, sweet coming-of-age debut feature, 'Holy Cow,' set in a cheese-making pocket of France's Comté region, is a lively welcome. After the head-scratching sight of a calf in the passenger seat of a compact car, we follow a burly man with a keg through a packed fairgrounds populated by people and livestock, before landing on Totone (Clément Faveau), a blitzed, flush-faced teenage boy all too willing to climb on a table and strip for a taunting crowd. Comté, a gorgeous, mountainous stretch of land, is (the film's revelry aside) a remote enclave of exacting work, where the well-treated red-and-white Montbéliarde breed of cow is the star employee. Meanwhile, the dairy farmers' hot-headed, party-hearty offspring seem like the animals in need of taming. As we get to know the movie's wiry, chaotic young protagonist, engagingly portrayed by first-time actor Faveau, we expect he'll get a life education the hard way, as these stories usually offer up. But like the ancient cheese-making process shown throughout the film in fascinating glimpses of handmade toil — as if a Les Blank short documentary had mixed with a Dardennes brothers drama — 'Holy Cow' achieves its own special texture and flavor the more its central character boils, curdles and cools. Totone's preferred daily cycle, with buddies Jean-Yves (Mathis Bernard) and Francis (Dimitry Baudry) in tow, is short-term pleasure-seeking: drinking, dancing, hitting on girls, puking, passing out, waking up, laughing about it, repeating. He knows a bit about the sweat and dedication of his father's world. But the reality of its importance to their livelihood doesn't hit him until dad's own end-of-day drinking results in a fatal car accident and Totone is left to look after his younger sister, Claire (Luna Garret). Selling off farm equipment isn't enough; it's also difficult to keep a new job at another family's dairy when the boss' sons are your after-hours enemies, quick to fight at the slightest provocation. Read more: The 27 best movie theaters in Los Angeles But when Totone learns that his region's Gruyère-like specialty can land a 30,000-euro payday from a contest, he's spurred, with his friends' help, to revive his family's operation and make a prizewinning Comté cheese. He invites further trouble, though, when he starts hooking up with newbie dairy farmer Marie-Lise, played by another well-cast newcomer, Maïwène Barthelemy. Totone likes her, for sure, but he also wants to get close enough to steal her cows' high-quality milk. That the tough, hardworking and no-nonsense Marie-Lise is the one who initiates this relationship with Totone makes her forthright character a wonderfully stereotype-defying snapshot of a woman laboring in this world, as if the farmer's daughter in that age-old scenario can now just be the farmer. Except Courvoisier complicates it further by making Marie-Lise the sister of Totone's brutish nemeses. But somehow, the writer-director, who grew up in agriculture villages like the ones in her film, makes that coincidence count in terms of small-town authenticity — of course, everyone's connected — and the dramatic stakes that go with impulses and shortcuts. Her rhythms evoke both the energy and quiet hum of rural life, with cinematographer Elio Balézeaux's attractive widescreen framing capturing a range between tactile human intimacy and beautiful wide landscapes. Perhaps most crucially, 'Holy Cow' keeps its sights set on being a study in fast-tracked adulthood, minus judgment or sentimentality. The French are as good at this kind of story as they are with their legendary cheeses and Courvoisier is no exception, capably revealing how, lesson by lesson, Totone tempers his distractable nature and answers his delayed grief with a sense of purpose and responsibility that starts to look like growing up. Commitment, timing and patience make for a delightfully mature bite. Sign up for Indie Focus, a weekly newsletter about movies and what's going on in the wild world of cinema. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
