Earth has a cow problem. Cow agriculture is one of the largest emitters of climate-warming methane to the atmosphere. But adding a type of red algae known for its methane-inhibiting properties to cow ...
A particularly impressive red alga has already shown great promise in dramatically reducing the alarming levels of methane gas produced by a cow's enteric digestive system. Now, a team of scientists ...
Come on, we're a FIRST WORLD COUNTRY! Can't we get issues like this under control? We have enough to worry about in life without worrying that the lettuce in our sandwich is gonna kill us. Click to ...
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's is working on editing its cows' diets in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from flatulence. Last month, the company announced a new project to slash ...
At barn No. 5 at the Larson Dairy farm just north of Lake Okeechobee, a line of cows pump out milk bound for grocery stores shelves and family refrigerators across Florida. Being cows, they are also ...
"Perfectly legal and common" is how one expert describes the practice of feeding chicken litter — manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material from raising poultry — to cattle. (Gina Ferazzi / ...
RUTLAND – A Massachusetts farm is turning cow poop into power – and profit. At Jordan Dairy Farm in Rutland, the cows are doing two things – producing milk and poop, lots of poop. Cow manure to be ...
Jan Henderson grew up in a farming household. “My grandfather was a dairy farmer in Western New York. My dad was a dairy farmer in Western New York. We moved to Florida and relocated our dairy farm in ...