Over the holiday season, humans may experience stomach churning caused by a change in diet to rich holiday food. Stomach ...

What's the best culling strategy? Dr. Mark Thomas of Dairy Health and Management Services argues it's one based on market ...

This can have a negative impact on dry matter intake - and associated milk loss - during this critical time. Schirmann et al. (2011) found that moved cows showed greater behavioral changes than cows ...

Dairy producers looking to optimise herd performance against their feed budget will benefit by including rumen-protected fat ...

In the world of dairy farming, maximizing milk quality and cow comfort is paramount. Dr. Andy Johnson, famously known as ‘The ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Research has shown that forage intake for cows on pasture increase as dietary protein increases up to about 7% of body weight on a dry-matter basis. Below that 7% sweet spot, rumen microbes cannot ...

A quick search of the Internet yielded the Oklahoma State University publication “Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle,” written by David ... A 1,700-pound bull needs a daily intake of 33 pounds of ...

Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a second version of the avian influenza virus that is different from the one rampaging through herds since the spring, Agriculture Department officials ...

A research team has identified key microbial genomes and enzymatic strategies responsible for breaking down the ...

The same strain is linked to the bird flu patient who died in Louisiana. A second type of bird flu has been found in dairy cows for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on ...

2:17 Health Matters: U.S. dairy cows infected by a new type of bird flu Nevada has confirmed its first human case of bird flu in a farm worker who was exposed to infected dairy cattle ...