Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed ...

Bovine burps and flatulence are an environmental menace. The gasses released by cows and bulls produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that is more than 28 percent more potent than carbon ...

Evidence of the industry’s presence, and its profitability, is everywhere now around Edon. Dozens of big concrete, steel, and vinyl cattle feeding barns have already been built, each costing $130,000 ...

Mitigating methane emissions in grazing beef cattle with a seaweed-based feed additive: Implications for climate-smart agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (50 ...

Bullish - Video. Beef Cattle Farming: From Range Land to Feedlot. Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. Phil Burgess explains to his city-dwelling nephew Wes and niece Emily the ...

They’re doing that by feeding cows a food that’s not grown on land — seaweed. June 29, 2025. ... There are about 1.2 million beef and dairy cattle, including calves, in Oregon.

The Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center is a $7.2-million project that is taking a new approach to research by focusing on performance, environmental issues and animal-welfare challenges in the ...

Consumer price index data show that beef and veal prices were 8.5% higher in April 2025 than in April 2024 while the average price of ground beef reached $6.02 per pound in May 2025, reflecting a ...

Beyond the Average Cattle Cycle – A Hypercycle. The cattle cycle is the expansion and contraction of the cattle inventory as a response to farmers’ and ranchers’ perceived profitability of the beef ...

Their high grain and high fiber diets can make bulls and cows particularly gassy. Earlier research found that giving feedlot cattle seaweed cut methane emissions by 82 percent and feeding it to ...