Cattle
Methane cutting efforts shift focus to pasture-fed cattle
Royal DSM is seeking to reduce the methane generated by dairy cows raised on pasture, following efforts to address production of the gas by animals managed
- Take feed advice to cut carbon emissions, says UK body
- Ensure fall-calving replacement heifers ready for breeding season
- Alternative feeds may help beef, dairy producers facing forage shortfalls
- Study reviews vitamin A influence on fresh cow disease
- Mushrooms may enhance corn stover nutrition for beef cattle
- Effort aims to boost beef marbling but not overall fatness
- Progressive limit feeding may maximize cattle profits
- Hike in concentrated feed use in increasingly consolidated Chinese dairy sector
Cattle
Varying feed pellet size, binder use may support cattle feed intake, production
Increasing feed pellet size and adding binding agents may support cattle intake and weight gain during winter production and could improve ruminal fermentation,
Adding lysine to dairy cow diets may improve intake during transition
Supplementing dairy cows with rumen-protected lysine may improve cow intake during the transition period and reduce free fatty acids and β-hydroxybutyrate
Brazil: Brewer’s grains use could reduce cattle feed costs
A team of researchers from the Federal University of Santa Maria and the University Veterinary Hospital in Brazil explored the use of brewer’s spent grains
Nitrate study putting dairy farmers in litigation crosshairs
Dairy coalition asks EPA for science review of nitrate study, which it claims is flawed and damaging.
New technique aims to improve aging of beef
Texas Tech researchers are evaluating the use of new mass spectrometry technology to determine tenderness, flavor and juiciness of beef in real time.
Methane busting strategies: NZ farmers to pay for their emissions?
New Zealand's interim Climate Change Committee has released advice to the government there on how to reduce agriculture's methane and nitrous oxide emissions
Facility to use manure, food waste as renewable energy
Middlebury College in Vermont to be primary buyer of renewable natural gas produced at local dairy farm.
Leading Egyptian dairy farm championing feed self-sufficiency
Autonomy in feed production for Egypt’s largest dairy business, Dina Farms, is one of the reported ambitions of its owner
Heat stress alters mammary gland, dairy calf performance
Lack of cooling during summer may reduce milk yield of lactating cows by 20 lb. per day.
Yep dairy cows really love water beds
When dairy cow water beds first appeared in the late 1990s, it was understood that it’s important for a cow to lie down, but mostly, cow beds were simply
Canada: Cattle feed tools shed light on ingredient nutrition, value
A set of new, online tools is aimed at making information about nutritional components in cattle feed and the economic value of feed or feed ingredients more