Another advantage of goats is their simpler breeding requirements. Finding a buck or arranging for breeding is far easier ...
Frank Mitloehner sits inside a trailer at the UC Davis dairy barn as equipment in front of him spits out data. Next to the trailer, a Holstein cow has its head and neck inside a huge, clear-plastic ...
Innovative practices — from diet additives to regenerative grazing — can offer quick wins in the fight against global rising ...
Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy ...
Cows are a gassy bunch. As they stand in fields and munch on grass, the animals burp and fart—and, in doing so, they release ...
Herd of Hereford beef cattle in the English landscape, Cumbria, UK. (Photo by: Farm Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Grass-fed cows and sheep can be part of the solution to climate ...
When calves are the most important commodity for a ranch, focusing on pregnant cows’ nutrition is the first step in ensuring ...