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Encyclopedic overview
Traditional Simmental cow grazing on an alpine pasture (Engstligenalp) The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is a Swiss breed of dual-purpose cattle. It is named after the Simmental – the valley of the Simme river – in the Bernese Oberland, in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The breed is typically reddish in colour with white markings, and is raised for both milk and meat.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simmental cattle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.