Understanding and improving feed efficiency can lead to significant benefits in terms of productivity, sustainability and ...
Brett Reinford grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, and he remembers his farm’s cows being fed with cottonseed—35 years ago. “I remember digging tunnels through the cottonseed as a small boy,” he ...
Live microbes are reshaping dairy nutrition, offering new tools to support gut health, rumen stability and production ...
The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59%-98% above current levels. In ...
Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia and Malaysia, to feed dairy cows, at a cost of NZ$800 million. But ...
Sean Ellis/Capital Press Cows feed at a dairy near Kuna, Idaho, earlier this year. The new margin insurance program in the 2014 Farm Bill will require dairy operators to study the details before ...
A new study explores whether the plentiful, fibrous byproduct of CBD production holds potential promise as a nutritious, efficiency-boosting feed ingredient for the dairy sector Hemp cultivation has ...
Methane emissions account for about one-third of the warming that planet Earth has endured since the industrial revolution. This greenhouse gas is more potent than carbon dioxide but doesn’t stick ...
A dairy farmer’s delight is when his cow is producing lots of milk. And lots of milk is what Kenya needs right now if assertions by Agriculture CS Peter Munya are anything to go by. The hidden market ...
Bovaer, a cow feed additive given a green light by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. for reducing methane emissions, is facing a battle for public acceptance as experts assure ...
Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change
Methane is a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas and the second-largest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. And the majority of human-induced methane emissions comes from livestock ...
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