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  • Low-emission cows: farming responds to climate warning

    From low-emission cows to robotic soil management, the farming industry will have to explore new approaches in the wake of a UN warning that the world needs to cut meat consumption or face worsening climate chaos.

  • What happens when silage ferments well?

    Obtaining a fast, efficient fermentation is critical to the success of the ensiling process. In silage fermentations dominated by homofermentative lactic acid bacteria, crop sugars are rapidly converted, mainly to lactic acid.

  • Climate change is already costing meat and dairy producers a lot

    The meat and dairy industry is increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, but they’re abnormally quiet about their own role in the crisis, according to a new report.

  • VIEWPOINT- The South African government must carefully control the water out of the overflow dams.

    AsrecentheavyrainspushkeyreservoirsliketheVaalDamto105%capacityandtheBloemhofDamto99%,agriculturalstakeholdersareissuingastarkwarningtotheDepartmentofWaterandSanitation(DWS):controlledwaterreleasesfromoverflowingdamsmustprioritizeprecisionandfarmerinputtoavertthecatastrophiclossesinflictedonruralcommunitiesearlierthisyear.
  • Eating meat affects the environment.

    As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment.

  • Scientists have a new suggestion to create more climate-friendly cows

    Belching bovines are a primary culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmed livestock are responsible for 14.5% of all emissions related to human activity, and cows make up by far the largest proportion of that.

  • Grass-Fed Beef Won’t Die For Our Sins

    A man named Allan Savory gave a TED talk that changed the course of my life.

  • Shaping the global dairy industry in 2020/21

    The global dairy market reached a value of US$ 718.9 Billion in 2019. Dairy is defined as a business enterprise that deals with the processing and harvesting of animal milk for human consumption.

  • Cargill to roll out real-time heat-stress monitoring to UK dairy units

    Cargill UK is to roll out live temperature and humidity data at 30 dairy units following useful insights from a similar initiative that was trialled in Germany and the Netherlands.

  • Are milk alternatives healthier than cow’s milk? – Oakland Group

    There are a growing number of choices available to consumers when it comes to alternatives to dairy milk on supermarket shelves.

  • A grass native to Africa could transform the continent’s dairy yields.

    The cows kept by small-scale farmers in Africa are notoriously unproductive.

  • New circular barn system reduces nitrogen emissions by >70%

    Nitrogen emissions from livestock can be significantly reduced by using the Lely Sphere circular barn system.

  • The battle for the future of milk

    Demand for plant milk has fed off café culture.

  • Cows and cars should not be conflated in climate change debates

    With world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, there is much talk of methane emissions and belching cows.

  • Reducing methane emissions from cattle and dairy farming

    At COP26 this month, 105 countries including the US, Canada and Brazil promised to reduce their methane gas emissions by at least 30% within eight years.

  • Balancing winter ration supplementation for optimal cow performance

    Paying close detail to forage quality is very important to ensure that nutritional requirements of dairy herds are met," said Dr Richard Kirkland, ruminant nutritionist for Volac Wilmar Feed Ingredients

  • Animal husbandry and emissions: incomplete calculations

     Corriere della Sera once again took it out on animal husbandry, accused of being one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

  • South Africa dairy farmers eye carbon credits while curbing emissions

    On South Africa’s Lancewood dairy farm, a GPS-guided tractor spreads cow manure across defined areas where tilling is banned and fertilizer used at a minimum, if at all.

  • 5 dairy nutritionist approaches to reduce methane

    Methane (CH4) and belching cows have been a media hot topic for some time now and the body of science around CH4 continues to grow.

  • Lions target particular types of cows – research

    Human-wildlife conflict is one of the gravest threats facing wildlife conservation and local communities in Africa.

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