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, ...

The era of the average cow is over. Learn how 2026 genetic innovations are bulletproofing dairy herds against heat stress, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California’s wine industry could play a role in reducing methane emissions from dairy cattle. Researchers at University of California, Davis, added fresh grape pomace left over from winemaking ...

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 ...

University of Florida researchers are testing a new type of cattle feed that could help dairy cows release less methane gas from burps and flatulence and use nutrients more efficiently. Because ...

Supplementing the diets of grazing beef cows with seaweed in pellet form could cut their methane emissions by almost 40 percent, a new study has found. The seaweed pellets led to this plunge in ...

Dairy cows feed at a dairy farm near Corcoran, Calif. Seven out of 10 herds that have been found to be infected with avian flu are in the state. Avian flu, highly contagious and damaging to poultry ...