Feeding cows holds deep spiritual significance in Hindu culture. This practice is believed to bring spiritual merit, ...

Cows will be fed special beans in a government-funded trial to stop them burping so much methane. Cattle are major greenhouse ...

FREEPORT, Maine—In the cold dark of 5 a.m., Kyle Moellar, an apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, ushers a herd of cows into the milking parlor. Each waits patiently ...

From cow burps to cow manure, it’s stirred up an ongoing debate: just how much methane do cattle emit, and can it be reduced? As global dairy companies set a new goal to trace and reduce emissions, ...

Outside, up out of our driveway next to the gravel county road, a couple pyramids of hay bales are stacked up nice and neat, waiting to be unrolled on the cold hard ground for the cows that we will be ...

It’s unclear what truly prompts cows to calve, other than a hormonal connection. Rasby and McCarthy explain studies show ...

BURLEY • Strong hay and feed prices have cow-calf producers taking a pencil to their feed costs but experts warn not to sharpen those pencils too much. “As you look at feed costs, ask ‘Where can I ...

Upton Sinclair, author of the scathing 1906 meat industry exposé The Jungle, would later in his life coin a particularly useful aphorism: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his ...

Methane is a major contributor to global heating, and cows produce a lot of it. There may, however, be a way to reduce all that gas: seaweed. On a research farm at the University of New Hampshire, ...

Limit-feeding corn grain can be economically advantageous when the price of hay becomes too high due to short supply.

Every morning, millions of Indian households set aside the first roti for the cow, a ritual that feels both spiritual and grounding. It is more than an offering; it is an expression of gratitude ...

PULLS THOSE MATCHING NUMBERS. A NEW UNH STUDY IS SHOWING SOME PROMISING EFFECTS OF FEEDING SEAWEED TO DAIRY COWS. NOW HEAR ME OUT HERE, RESEARCHERS ADDED SEAWEED TO THE FEED OF A GROUP OF DAIRY COWS ...