Could there be fewer cowbells in Switzerland? A recent study suggesting that cowbells worn by Swiss cows could hurt their hearing has raised calls to end the time-honored tradition of tinkling bovines ...

URNAESCH, Switzerland (AP) — First, the sound of cowbells and yodeling. Then the guests emerge from the green hills: Swiss brown cows with bells as big as their heads, accompanied by little white ...

Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village, with Olle, who teaches farm kids in the village school, I always feel like a wide-eyed student. We meet a massive cow loitering atop a ...

ZOLLIKOFEN, Switzerland — When Christian Oesch was a boy on his family’s hog farm, cellphones were a thing of the future. Now, Oesch tends a herd of dairy cattle and carries a smartphone wherever he ...

Switzerland raises about 1.5 million cattle in a country where only about one-third of the land is used for crop farming. That reality shaped how towns grew, how food moved, and how farmers earned ...

Walking high above Gimmelwald, my favorite Swiss village, with Olle, who teaches in the village school, I always feel like a wide-eyed student. We meet a massive cow loitering atop a fairytale ridge, ...

PANMUNJOM, South Korea (Reuters) - In a tiny mess hall set amid pine trees and rose bushes on the heavily fortified Korean border, a lunch of steak and asparagus is served. Outside, birdsong competes ...