Food can be depressing. If it's tasty, it's carcinogenic. If it's cheap, animals were tortured. But this, miraculously, is a happy column about food. It's about a farmer who names all his 230 milk ...

The other day, in Puerto Rico, I stumbled across one small piece of an agricultural revolution. It didn't look all that revolutionary — just an abandoned sugar plantation where workers are clearing ...

With their pre-dawn milking done, about 80 cows ramble into the dewy pastures of the Paris Family Farm in Belleville, Wisconsin, to graze. “This is a much better sound than turning on a tractor,” says ...

When one well-to-do Ruandan greets another, he places his hands lightly on his friend’s elbows and says: “/ sho, sho, sho, gir inka” (I hope your cows are doing well). The friend replies: “Eeh, eeh” ...

Maybe we've had the solution all along to the problem of methane from cows: pasture grass. Taxing livestock burps and farts? Cows genetically modified to be less gassy? The U.S. government is ...

Ranchers and researchers tout futuristic technology's benefit to working lands and wildlife. The post Virtual fences keep ...

Putting cattle on wheat pasture is not always a matter of grazing the wheat out or waiting until the first hollow wheat stem appears. There are some ways to more efficiently use wheat pasture for ...

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One white whale for Beach Boys fanatics is Cows in the Pasture, a country album Brian Wilson made with then BB manager Fred Vail in 1970 that was never finished. That is changing, though, as according ...