Decisions surrounding breeding-season management are rarely black and white. While estrus expression has long been recognized ...

No need to make a stink: Controlling bovine flatulence could be key to helping curb global warming. New research suggests that breeding dairy cows to fart less — and, therefore, release less methane — ...

The national Livestock Improvement and Breeding Goal (April 2025) sets a target for Kuroge Washu (Japanese Black) steers to reduce the age at which fattening ends from the current 29.5 months to 27.0 ...

Researchers in Türkiye used an explainable machine learning framework combining XGBoost and SHAP to identify age and postpartum diseases as key drivers of delayed first insemination in dairy cows, ...

Reducing methane emissions from livestock would benefit farmers and the environment. The study, published in the Journal of Dairy Science, shows that low emitting cows tend to be smaller and house ...

Israel is making very rapid strides in its dairy industry and will soon outrank most dairy countries in the quality and production of its dairy cattle, according to Jacob M. Maze, official of the ...

New research suggests that breeding dairy cows to fart less -- and, therefore, release less methane -- could cut down on greenhouse gases. No need to make a stink: Controlling bovine flatulence could ...

In a first step toward breeding low-methane emitting cows, researchers have identified key differences between cows that naturally emit less methane than average and those that don’t. Reducing methane ...