(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Adelaide project could provide a breakthrough for a viral cattle disease costing Australian producers millions of dollars each year.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 30, 2010 not rated yet 0

Identifying the causes of heat stress in cattle and finding ways to manage it are the goals of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators who are helping producers deal with this significant production ...

Biology - Other

Mar 25, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of two influential bulls, one beef and one dairy, the first animals to have been fully sequenced in Canada.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 18, 2010 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

A multi-disciplinary team of Oklahoma State University scientists and practitioners is riding herd on one of the most challenging concerns of Oklahoma's $4.6 billion cattle industry: Bovine Respiratory Disease.

Biology - Other

Mar 05, 2010 not rated yet 0

Lots of leaves growing in easy reach of a cow's tongue means less time and less land needed to raise beef cattle, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and DairyNZ (New Zealand) scientists.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 03, 2010 3 / 5 (1) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers, based in Ireland and Britain, have found the complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequence of ancient wild cattle using a sample from a 6,700 year-old bone.

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 22, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

'Free-stall', untied cattle in small herds produce less milk than cows tied to their stalls but have a higher reproductive performance and suffer less teat injuries and metabolic diseases. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's ...

Biology - Other

Feb 15, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 10, 2010 not rated yet 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the National Animal Germplasm Program (NAGP) opened its doors a decade ago, it started out with genetic material from 40 lines of chicken. Today, the center operated by the Agricultural ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 14, 2010 not rated yet 0

Switching from warm-season grasses to cool-season forages can give livestock a belly ache, in some cases a deadly one, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jan 05, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 08, 2009 3.1 / 5 (10) 4

Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday.

Biology - Biotechnology

Nov 29, 2009 2.7 / 5 (9) 9

Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 16, 2009 1 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Oct 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doppler technology -- the very same technology used by meteorologists to track thunderstorms -- is being used by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to better understand the rate ...

Biology - Other

Oct 21, 2009 3 / 5 (1) 0