Apple Magazine

4 min. di lettura

Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty. A company wants to alter farm animals by adding and subtracting genetic traits in a lab. It sounds like science fiction, but Recombinetics sees

Indianapolis Monthly

3 min. di lettura

THE BEST PART about Macy Stewart’s job is spending quality time with the cows. She milks, births, waters, pets, and sometimes serenades the bovines at Traders Point Creamery with a trumpet. Her musical repertoire is cow appropriate: “Back Home Again

Newsweek

2 min. di lettura

How ardently do cows love going out to pasture? Quite a lot, it seems. As detailed in a recent paper in Scientific Reports , researchers came up with a scheme to measure how driven cows were to either access food or go out to pasture. The team, led

Profi

6 min. di lettura

Situated to the North West of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, Washfold Farm is close to 850ha in size. Forage for the dairy unit is produced from approximately 65ha of maize, 185ha of mainly wholecrop wheat and 325ha of grass. The latter is cut on a 28 to

Country Life

3 min. di lettura

IF ‘a peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom’, then what’s a whole April of dust worth? Weather lore doesn’t tell us, because it’s unprecedented, here in Galloway anyway. Of all the Aprils for it to happen, this one has been heaven-sent, as the

TechLife News

4 min. di lettura

Cows that can withstand hotter temperatures. Cows born without pesky horns. Pigs that never reach puberty. A company wants to alter farm animals by adding and subtracting genetic traits in a lab. It sounds like science fiction, but Recombinetics sees

Farmer's Weekly

4 min. di lettura

When a large milk buyer decided in 2001 that it was no longer worth its while to collect the milk from small dairies in the Western Cape’s Droëvlakte area, the Kasselman family of Klein Soebattersvlakte, en route to Stilbaai, decided to help out. At

Nautilus

10 min. di lettura

Cull auctions sell animals who have been culled from the herd: those who have been deemed no longer productive or economically viable. Animals sold at cull auctions will typically either be transported directly to a slaughterhouse or be moved to a fe

Profi

1 min. di lettura

Designed to collect some of the daily 15 to 20 litres of urine produced by housed dairy cows, the CowToilet has won the only innovation award gold medal at the digital edition of the EuroTier 2021 livestock machinery show. Developed by Dutch manufact

Better Nutrition

1 min. di lettura

Q I definitely feel better not eating processed wheat. What about milk products? Are they all bad for me too? The main problem with milk in the U.S. is that it mostly comes from cows raised inhumanely and fed an extremely high-glycemic diet—GMO corn

The Christian Science Monitor

6 min. di lettura

Although immigration can be a hot-button political topic, this story takes a more personal approach – looking at how some farmers have improved operations by getting to know their foreign workers better.

Futurity

2 min. di lettura

Internal, annual biological rhythms appear to influence the amount and composition of dairy cows’ milk more than environmental factors like heat and humidity do, research shows. Although researchers have long recognized an annual pattern of milk comp

BeanScene

4 min. di lettura

Multiple studies, research organisations, and industry bodies have come to the consensus that by 2050, demand for coffee will double while suitable land for production will fall to half of what it is today. The turning point, however, will come much

Farmer's Weekly

2 min. di lettura

After first calving, a heifer becomes a cow. Thereafter, her age is indicated by the number of times she has calved down. In other words, she is referred to as a first-, second- or third-lactation (or parity) cow. The daily milk yield of a cow follow

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

3 min. di lettura

“I just had a Facebook memory pop up from 10 years ago, where I wrote, ‘I knew my first day at work would be big, but I didn’t realise it’d be that big!’ It was September 4, 2010 and we’d started milking the cows at 4.30am on day one of my first full

Post Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Japan is experiencing a shortage of milk brought on by soaring demand amid the coronavirus pandemic and record high summer temperatures that have laid herds of cows low with heatstroke. Yet despite the stress on the country's cattle, a poorly timed c

Who Do You Think You Are?

5 min. di lettura

Picture the scene: a bustling Victorian city ringing to the sound of industry and commerce, the hum and clatter of machinery churning out mass-produced goods interspersed with the distinctive mooing of cows. We’re used to considering 19th-century urb

New Mexico Magazine

1 min. di lettura

If you’ve ever wanted to taste milk like it was when your grandparents were children, now you can. De Smet Dairy, established in 1949 by Landon De Smet, is the only dairy in New Mexico serving up Grade A raw milk from grassfed, free-range cows. You k

Shooting Times & Country

3 min. di lettura

Since moving home a decade ago, I have learned to mark by the birds the progress of the seasons, particularly the long, aching search for signs of spring. It is striking how similar each year is. The human world may have been plunged into lockdown by

BeanScene

4 min. di lettura

Quite often, when a café uses a chalkboard to highlight “the latest single origin from Ethiopia”, a barista will get excited at the opportunity to educate the customer on the taste profile of the coffee and the meaning of the term “single origin”, wh

Shooting Times & Country

3 min. di lettura

It feels wrong to write this when there is so much misery. But I think the lockdown will be etched on my memory as a glorious spring when we have been able to appreciate the wildflowers and the birdsong without being troubled by the outside world at

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Puerto Rico's dairy farmers account for about a third of the island's total agricultural production. Now they're struggling to recover their cows and get them milked.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

4 min. di lettura

This has dropped by around two million litres a day during lockdown – a 6% drop. “Things have settled down since the first three weeks of lockdown and we have seen a decent uplift in most dairy products,” says Chris Gooderham at the Agriculture and H

Farmer's Weekly

6 min. di lettura

Alan and Frances Webster arrived in the Weenen area of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in late 1990, ready to take their first steps towards becoming commercial dairy farmers. The young couple had long been scrimping and saving towards achieving this goal during

PlantBased Magazine

1 min. di lettura

The stars of BAFTA-winning documentary, 73 Cows, husband-and-wife team Jay and Katja famously sent their herd of cows to an animal sanctuary, as they could no longer face sending them to slaughter. With the help of Refarm’d (en.refarmd.com), an organ

Nautilus

10 min. di lettura

Cull auctions sell animals who have been culled from the herd: those who have been deemed no longer productive or economically viable. Animals sold at cull auctions will typically either be transported directly to a slaughterhouse or be moved to a fe

Pip Permaculture Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Cattle (cows, bulls, oxen, heifers, steers, bullocks or calves) are valued for their ability to provide large amounts of milk or meat. They can also be used for labour and when well-managed, in maintaining grasslands. Yet cattle are very large animal

Earth Garden

2 min. di lettura

TESS Sellar loves being surrounded by lactating females. And her bovine females give back to her the most delicious creamy milk imaginable — far, far removed from conventional supermarket milk. I caught up with Tess at Mount Alexander, Central Victor

Farmer's Weekly

2 min. di lettura

More than 132 000 visitors from 20 countries attended the 114th Fieragricola in Verona, Italy, from 29 January to 1 February. On display were the latest technology, machines and innovation from 900 companies across the agricultural supply chain. Ther

Farmer's Weekly

7 min. di lettura

The mixing of dung and urine in dairy operations where cattle are housed in sheds causes a reaction that releases ammonia into the air. Excessive ammonia is potentially harmful to the cattle and can result in nitrogen pollution when it settles in the