MONTROSE, Colo. — At 54, rancher Bob Hasse has always been a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. For the last few years, the meat has been yak. Three or four times a week, Hasse and his family break bread ...

Though placid enough to be managed by humans, yaks are robust enough to survive at 4000 meters altitude. Genomic analyses by researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich show that ...

POLSON, Mont. – If you’re not sure what you’re looking at, the peaceful, shaggy creatures roaming the bucolic green pastures of Living Diamond Ranch resemble a bizarre, mutated cross of, perhaps, ...

Western Nebraska could become known as a source for high quality yaks in the not too distant future, according to Tim Hardy, co-owner with his wife, Una Taylor, of Hay Springs Yak Ranch, located east ...

With the soaring temperature and lack of adequate grazing space, decades of yak farming is on the verge of collapse in the upper hilly region of Ramechhap district. The farmers have been facing this ...

Maybe it was the free yak burgers – better than elk, not quite as good as bison. Whatever the reason, the Tibetan bovine drew a large, inquisitive crowd at the National Western Complex stockyards last ...

Though placid enough to be managed by humans, yaks are robust enough to survive at 4,000 meters altitude. Genomic analyses show that yak domestication began several millennia ago and was promoted by ...