A major UK trial of a controversial feed additive designed to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane gas by dairy cows has ended. Arla Foods, owner of the UK's largest dairy co-operative, is now ...

A HUGE row has broken out in Denmark after a number of dairy farmers claim their cows have been poisoned by the methane ...

Cows are reportedly collapsing and in some cases being euthanized in Denmark following the implementation of a climate policy ...

The Bovaer supplement, developed by DSM-Firmenich, was trialled on 30 Arla farms across Britain. It works by reducing methane ...

It’s plausible to see short-term herd disturbances – from milk components to cell counts – if ration transitions are abrupt ...

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 ...

By providing microbial metabolites directly, postbiotics help calves develop stronger gut defenses and support cows as they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOMALES BAY -- A pivotal experiment to address the impact of livestock on climate change is taking place in our backyard, as a farm in the North Bay gets closer to becoming carbon neutral. Scientists ...