Raising dairy cows delivers multiple benefits. Just one “bossy” contentedly chewing her cud in the lower 40–or even in a small backyard plot–can easily provide your family with all the milk, cheese, ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

As beef-on-dairy calves are pushed for growth, zinc and copper nutrition could influence how well they respond to ...

The scent of cattle is an unavoidable assault on the senses at an Arkansas dairy farm on a hot October day. But it's a peaceful scene, punctuated by fields filled with black and white spotted Holstein ...

FREEPORT, Maine—In the cold dark of 5 a.m., Kyle Moellar, an apprentice at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment, ushers a herd of cows into the milking parlor. Each waits patiently ...

"Climate change is happening, and cows live in that natural system, and as climate changes, that impacts how we raise cows, too," Tauzel said. Health impacts from heat stress affect cattle ...

Some dairy and beef producers are finding that committing to more sustainable practices that reduce methane or capture carbon offer additional benefits: Managing their manure differently to use as ...