From low-emission cows to robotic soil management, the farming industry will have to explore new approaches in the wake of a UN warning that the world needs to cut meat consumption or face worsening climate chaos.

Obtaining a fast, efficient fermentation is critical to the success of the ensiling process. In silage fermentations dominated by homofermentative lactic acid bacteria, crop sugars are rapidly converted, mainly to lactic acid.

The meat and dairy industry is increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, but they’re abnormally quiet about their own role in the crisis, according to a new report.

As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment.

A man named Allan Savory gave a TED talk that changed the course of my life.

The global dairy market reached a value of US$ 718.9 Billion in 2019. Dairy is defined as a business enterprise that deals with the processing and harvesting of animal milk for human consumption.

Cargill UK is to roll out live temperature and humidity data at 30 dairy units following useful insights from a similar initiative that was trialled in Germany and the Netherlands.

There are a growing number of choices available to consumers when it comes to alternatives to dairy milk on supermarket shelves.

The cows kept by small-scale farmers in Africa are notoriously unproductive.

Nitrogen emissions from livestock can be significantly reduced by using the Lely Sphere circular barn system.

Demand for plant milk has fed off café culture.

With world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, there is much talk of methane emissions and belching cows.

At COP26 this month, 105 countries including the US, Canada and Brazil promised to reduce their methane gas emissions by at least 30% within eight years.

Paying close detail to forage quality is very important to ensure that nutritional requirements of dairy herds are met," said Dr Richard Kirkland, ruminant nutritionist for Volac Wilmar Feed Ingredients

 Corriere della Sera once again took it out on animal husbandry, accused of being one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

On South Africa’s Lancewood dairy farm, a GPS-guided tractor spreads cow manure across defined areas where tilling is banned and fertilizer used at a minimum, if at all.

Methane (CH4) and belching cows have been a media hot topic for some time now and the body of science around CH4 continues to grow.

Human-wildlife conflict is one of the gravest threats facing wildlife conservation and local communities in Africa.

Any plan to cull Ireland’s dairy herd must be voluntary, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association has warned.