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 ...

Cows eating fresh grass at pasture have to collect their forage from a large area. In spite of this, the milk yield of grazing cows is of about the same level or higher than that of cows fed with ...

PLATTEVILLE — The cows turning out “certified” milk for Aurora Organic Dairy will get a guaranteed 120 days in the rolling pastures here under federal rules taking effect in June. The change will help ...

Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals ...

Cows during a morning graze on the Prairie Star Family Farm in Waukon, Iowa. When you have pasture-based systems and organic crop production, you have a smaller carbon footprint. That’s how Nicole ...

Can land management help farmers' profitability and deter flooding? Agronomists in the Mohawk Valley think so and the proof is in the soil, they say. “Most farms in the Mohawk Valley practice ...

Supplementing the diets of grazing beef cows with seaweed in pellet form could cut their methane emissions by almost 40 percent, a new study has found. The seaweed pellets led to this plunge in ...