Researchers spotlight how selecting cattle for lower methane emissions could deliver long-term gains for the beef industry.

VINING, Minn. — Dave Uhren hasn’t marketed his beef cattle at the local stockyards in nearly eight years. Instead, his family’s grass-fed cattle are all processed locally and sold to loyal customers ...

CHICAGO — Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for ...

HURON, S.D. — The Dakota Alternative Beef Cow Symposium was held Feb. 6 at the Huron Event Center to provide research and information for farmers and ranchers interested in alternative production ...

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable. A new study by researchers at the UC Davis found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form ...

Cows are a gassy bunch. As they stand in fields and munch on grass, the animals burp and fart—and, in doing so, they release ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single cow raised for meat produces between 154 and 264 pounds of methane per year, according to the U.S. Environmental ...

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 ...