Brett Reinford grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania, and he remembers his farm’s cows being fed with cottonseed—35 years ago. “I remember digging tunnels through the cottonseed as a small boy,” he ...

Understanding and improving feed efficiency can lead to significant benefits in terms of productivity, sustainability and ...

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59%-98% above current levels. In ...

Sean Ellis/Capital Press Cows feed at a dairy near Kuna, Idaho, earlier this year. The new margin insurance program in the 2014 Farm Bill will require dairy operators to study the details before ...

A new study explores whether the plentiful, fibrous byproduct of CBD production holds potential promise as a nutritious, efficiency-boosting feed ingredient for the dairy sector Hemp cultivation has ...

It's the dedication and advancement of the U.S. dairy farmer that will continue to position the U.S. as a leader in feeding a ...

Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia and Malaysia, to feed dairy cows, at a cost of NZ$800 million. But ...

At first glance, the 400 acres of soybeans growing on the Preston family's dairy farm in southern Michigan looks like a ...

TOMALES BAY -- A pivotal experiment to address the impact of livestock on climate change is taking place in our backyard, as a farm in the North Bay gets closer to becoming carbon neutral. Scientists ...

Methane emissions account for about one-third of the warming that planet Earth has endured since the industrial revolution. This greenhouse gas is more potent than carbon dioxide but doesn’t stick ...

A dairy farmer’s delight is when his cow is producing lots of milk. And lots of milk is what Kenya needs right now if assertions by Agriculture CS Peter Munya are anything to go by. The hidden market ...

EYOTA, Minn. — Expect to pay more to feed dairy cows because of the rising demand of corn in the ethanol industry. "This shows that the competition with the ethanol industry for grain is not going to ...