This elevation has been attributed to the expansion in agricultural and industrial activities, including livestock farming, rice cultivation, mining of fossil fuels, reticulation of natural gas, and ...

Livestock farming is responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases, and ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats generate 35 percent of one of these gases -- methane, and according to ...

Scientists could have a revolutionary new way of measuring how much of the potent greenhouse gas methane is produced by cows and other ruminants, thanks to a surprising discovery in their feces.

Karen Beauchemin spends every day in her lab at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Alberta, Canada, working on cow feed. Boring, you say? Far from it. Beauchemin is part of an international ...

Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...

Esayas Gelaye, Lukas Mach, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Reingard Grabherr, Angelika Loitsch, Jenna E. Achenbach, Norbert Nowotny, Adama Diallo, Charles Euloge Lamien. 2017. A novel HRM assay for the ...

Animal production remains a cornerstone of global food security, intertwining advances in genetic selection, environmental management and digital technologies to optimise yield and sustainability.

Ruminants evolved in diverse landscapes of which they utilized, by choice, a diverse arrangement of plants (grasses, forbs, and trees) for food. These plants provide them with both primary ...

The Agricultural Campus is home to a large-scale, fully operational farm where students and researchers alike have a wide range of hands-on opportunities for learning and study. A variety of animal ...

Researchers at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have taken part in a study of the effect of one molecule, 3-nitrooxypropanol, in inhibiting methane production in ruminants. The work has ...