Scientists have discovered cattle and other ruminants already harbor gut microbes capable of digesting compounds from seaweed ...

KANSAS CITY, MO. – Meat producers have tagged livestock for identification purposes for decades. But the tags of today have benefits beyond a sign of ownership. In its first in-person event of 2021, ...

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 ...

VINING, Minn. — Dave Uhren hasn’t marketed his beef cattle at the local stockyards in nearly eight years. Instead, his family’s grass-fed cattle are all processed locally and sold to loyal customers ...

Corn Belt states like Iowa and Nebraska lead the nation in corn, ethanol and cattle production. Each part of that business model benefits from the other even during these inflationary times in ...

JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - Local farmers are working to protect their cattle from Theileriosis - a disease where tiny parasites infect livestock blood. With a confirmed case in southeast Iowa, ...

Investing in a new cattle handling system has not just made life safer for beef farmer David Drinkwater – work is easier too. For “the price of a front axle on a tractor”, cattle are no longer ...