Steak from dairy cows could offer lifeline for farmers

By Florence Fabricant

Where’s the rib-eye? Someday soon it might be grazing on a dairy farm.

Meat from dairy cows, rarely valued in American kitchens and restaurants, usually becomes dog food and fast-food burgers. The farmer gets about 60 cents a pound. But selling it for steaks could get them $6 or more a pound, allowing struggling U.S. dairy farmers to profit from an approach that’s widely practiced in Europe — and used to be in the United States.

When mature dairy cows...