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 ...

Cows were out foraging and eating from bales in the pasture on Jan. 8, 2024, at the farm where Derek Schmitz raises cattle near Cold Spring, Minnesota.

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 ...

In addition, supplementing cows with 0.3% - 0.8% of BW/day with a 20 – 28% protein supplement will help meet protein and energy requirements and assist with more efficient forage utilization.

One is that 3/4 of his cows are Jerseys. The other difference is that Patterson's cows spend most of their time grazing on pasture, instead of being confined and having feed brought to them.

Curious cows on pasture at the Bansen Family Farm in Monmouth, Oregon. Anna Campbell for Organic Valley The study says carbon sequestration benefits range from 7 to 20%.

Till the cows come home: Mealani Experiment Station provides valuable cattle grazing and genetics research Tuesday, April 25, 2017 04:38 pm 1/2 ... By Landry Fuller Special to West Hawaii Today ...

Not surprisingly, despite livestock grazing that some suggest could preclude large blazes, the drought in eastern Montana has spawned some recent blazes including the 270,000-acre Lodgepole Fire.

So our cows, so to speak, are our factories: Each one is here to produce a calf. Since the ranch’s main commodity is purebred Charolais bulls, we put a lot of time and effort into having our ...