Heifer’s first shipment to Ecuador landed in Quito on October 13, 1948.
Heifer’s seagoing cowboys delivered livestock to Germany after WWII. Now, a museum exhibition and a new book are celebrating Heifer’s...
Heifer International’s very first volunteers were the Midwestern farmers who raised animals to donate and the “seagoing cowboys” who...
Engineers in Rotterdam think they've built the world's first floating dairy. But Heifer's seagoing cowboys were milking and mucking at sea decades...
You didn't hear this from us, but... goats and chickens? They're not the only superheroes of the animal world. Meet some of the weird (but mighty)...
Heifer International was launched by young men like Lord, who braved the oceans to offer sustenance, friendship and hope to people suffering in the...
At 17 years old, Richard Reiste was antsy to get out of Iowa. Having ventured beyond state borders only twice before, to Chicago and Kansas, Reiste...
Kathy Moore is not your typical seagoing cowboy, and not just for the obvious reason that she’s not a boy at all. Kathy earned her spot on Heifer...
Part 2 of our series on the Seagoing Cowboys, a group of young farmers who volunteered to accompany shipments of livestock into devastated...
Part 1 of our series on the Seagoing Cowboys, a group of young farmers who volunteered to accompany shipments of livestock into devastated...