Until three summers ago, Kate Williams ’89 didn’t know much about yak faming. But that all changed during the summer of 2007, when Williams and her husband, Rob Williams ’89, traveled from their home ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – On a typical Minnesota farm, you will find all kinds of animals: chickens, goats, horses – but how about yaks? That's life for one Goodhue County family. They have a herd of about ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- For four weeks this summer, John Hooper herded yak, ate yak, wore a yak-hair hat -- not on his Stearns County yak farm, but on a high plateau in central China. Hooper, Minnesota's ...

Melodee Smith just wanted one yak when she drove to Cold Spring, Minn., years ago. When she returned to Clear Spring Farm in Welch, Minn., she had seven. Now, with 35 yak in her herd, and nine more on ...

ASA, Minn. -- In Minnesota's Vasa Township, along County Road 7, is a piece of land that, at first glance, seems to hold nothing more than similar stretches of land throughout the surrounding rolling ...

Mandy Moore is, um, missing yak milk like candy. During her appearance on Tuesday's Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actress recalled her May hiking trip to the base camp of Mount Everest, where she said she ...

Minutes from charming small-town Stockton, big shaggy beasts named BMW, Betty and Big Papa roam. "We're just starting to produce a line of a fashion from yak,'' Amy Serridge says in the country store ...

CHARLEVOIX — A Tibetan yak is not something one commonly encounters in rural Northern Michigan, nor would one expect to find an entire farm, one of the largest in the state, teeming with the shaggy ...

DELTA JUNCTION — Telling your wife you just got a great deal on a small herd of yaks wouldn't go over well in every family, and Mary Kaspari is not the kind of wife who goes along with everything her ...

It all comes back to the yak. The opportunity to leave the rat race in Indianapolis for the wide-open spaces of Northern Michigan was just what Chris Butz and his family were looking for. Today the ...