Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grazing cattle also tend to generate more methane than feedlot cattle–those raised in fenced areas and fed a high energy diet to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cows fed seaweed pellets at Matador Ranch in Dillon, Montana. Paulo de Méo Filho / UC Davis Grazing cattle given a seaweed ...

Methane isn’t just an environmental buzzword—it is energy lost. Every puff of gas from a cow’s rumen represents feed energy that could have gone toward growth, milk or a calf. That simple truth is ...

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed ...

Cattle graze on grass at the Tuckahoe Plantation, in the Goochland County, Virginia, area. (USDA photo) Researchers are taking a closer look at whether a seaweed feed additive known for sharply ...

Livestock agriculture faces mounting pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, particularly enteric methane, urinary ...

Range cattle in Northeastern New Mexico (NRCS photo). A study published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that supplementing beef cattle with a seaweed pellet can ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug 8 (Reuters) — When Canadian dairy farmer Ben Loewith's calves are born next spring, they will be among the first in the world to be bred with a specific environmental goal: ...

When Leluo Guan peers inside a cow's stomach, she sees more than microbes—she sees an opportunity to cut methane emissions from cattle and improve profits for beef and dairy farmers. Cattle are ...

Intensive dairy cattle farming is a significant source of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, that contributes to global warming and thus climate change. A study in the International Journal ...

A first-of-its-kind renewable natural gas facility under construction in central Nebraska will convert cattle manure into pipeline-quality natural ...

Cow burps are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that heats up the planet more than 80 times faster than CO2 when it’s first released. But a new enzyme—from a startup that usually ...