Successful dairy farming has always required a degree of precision. This starts with the watchful eyes of producers and managers who, through experience and dedication, know their cattle and their ...

The dairy industry is teaming up with a major agribusiness and an environmental group to “develop a replicable program and toolset to scale the adoption of best management practices in feed/forage ...

Some literature compares a dairy cow to a factory. That means what is fed to the cow determines to a large extent the quality and quantity of milk produced. It is from the feeds that a dairy cow ...

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, ...

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 ...

Adding seaweed to cattle feed may significantly reduce methane emissions from dairy cows Method could help dairy farmers meet new state methane-emissions standards The UC Davis project is first in the ...

FARGO, N.D. -- The dietary starch content recommendation for lactating dairy cows is 23 to 26 percent. However, diets for some of the most productive herds in the U.S. contain 15 to 30 percent starch.

KANSAS CITY — Global milk production costs have risen significantly over the past five years, and higher feed prices bear much of the blame, according to a recent report. From 2019 to 2024, the total ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For the past year and a half, you may have heard a lot about butter. It started with a viral video of ...

Driving through the heart of dairy country in the High Plains this past summer, one thing became clear—sorghum silage acres are up. With irrigation water from the Ogallala Aquifer dwindling, dairies ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 1, 2022) A report by the Independent finds chemical-intensive farming of crops for animal feed puts thousands of endangered species at risk. U.S. farmlands use more than 235 ...