BROOKINGS, S.D. - The time to process fall-weaned calves and determine pregnancy rates among cows will soon be here. Management of open cows is critical to the financial bottom line of a cow/calf ...

It’s no longer just “cows and cooking,” as the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Extension System approaches. While originally the role of county agricultural agents and the 4-H program was helping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dairy industry might not seem like a major climate villain, but it’s responsible for about 4% of human-caused greenhouse gas ...

Natural gas wells leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere as a consequence of the production process. So do cows. But where well leaks are called “fugitive methane emissions,” cow ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Food manufacturers and restaurants are taking the dairy industry by the horns on an animal welfare issue that bothers activists but is little known to consumers. Horned calves ...

One of Scotland's longest-running livestock breeding experiments has just added a new calf named Hilda to its herd, and she's genetically tailored to produce less methane for the greater good. The ...

The only place to see an aurochs in nature these days? A cave painting. The enormous wild cattle that once roamed the European plains have been extinct since 1627, when the last survivor died in a ...

Cows and bulls searching for “moo love” now have a mobile app to help their breeders. A U.K. farming startup introduced a Tinder-style app, called Tudder, that lets farmers find breeding matches by ...

Two centuries ago, hundreds of Punganur cows lived in Chittoor district, their native land. But now, their population is less than 50, says K. Mani (61), a farmer from Jangala Agraharam village, less ...

The dairy industry might not seem like a major climate villain, but it’s responsible for about 4% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, most of that from cow burps. That’s right: when ...