A $53 million effort drawing on the work of over 300 researchers has, after six years, produced something of great value to evolutionary biologists and farmers alike: the complete cow genome, which ...

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 ...

At Vaqueria El Remanso, a small dairy farm west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the cows are different—they have a freshly shaven, suave look. Their short hair is the result of a natural mutation known as ...

Many producers are now in full swing of calving season or soon will be in the Northern Plains. Although late winter has been relatively mild with above average temperatures the last few weeks, we had ...

Many beef producers ascribe to the belief that the main job of a cow on the ranch is to annually raise a healthy calf. To do that she must be bred on a regular interval post calving. According to ...

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 ...

Beyond the challenge of balancing cow size with terminal performance, cow-calf operations frequently assess efficiency on a per-cow basis. However, in forage-limited systems, land, not cows is the ...

No need to make a stink: Controlling bovine flatulence could be key to helping curb global warming. New research suggests that breeding dairy cows to fart less — and, therefore, release less methane — ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian scientists are breeding a special type of cow designed to burp less, a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Cows ...

Napier grass sways slowly from side to side as we navigate through a narrow dusty road off the Ndumberi-Githunguri road. The area is green with coffee and eucalyptus grown in some areas. Our ...