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. Alex Gathii, a ...

A University of Minnesota study found the top 10% of profitable dairy herds in Minnesota account for 60% of the feed costs of ...

A team of researchers led by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) studied the effects of feeding hemp silage to dairy cows and published their findings in Nature Food. If the hemp ...

New research published in the journal Nature Food has reported on the consequences of feeding dairy cows commercial hemp. Despite the hemp product containing negligible levels of psychoactive THC the ...

From cow burps to cow manure, it’s stirred up an ongoing debate: just how much methane do cattle emit, and can it be reduced? As global dairy companies set a new goal to trace and reduce emissions, ...

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 ...

There are several ways to feed dairy cows — pasturing on grass, topdressing grain and protein on the forages fed to the cow in her stall, or feeding a total mixed ration, or TMR. We use a big TMR ...