Researchers have investigated the impact of heat stress in Australian dairy cows grazing summer pastures, revealing high temperature and humidity leads to a significant drop in milk production, but that this can be rectified ...
Veterinary medicine
May 25, 2020
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Installing wireless sensors among crops and attaching 'smart' ear tags to livestock could help farmers produce more food with less impact on the environment.
Veterinary medicine
May 18, 2020
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A molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has for decades studied the nightmarish group of fatal diseases caused by prions—chronic wasting disease in deer, mad cow in cattle and its human analog—credits ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 6, 2020
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Breakthrough collaborative science by an interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together by computational biology professor David Ardell promises a new approach for treating all types of infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2020
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Producing a liter of milk in California emits less greenhouse gas and uses less land and water than it did in 1964, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Environment
Mar 12, 2020
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University of Alberta researchers are developing an easy pen-side test that can predict a common and costly disease in dairy cattle.
Veterinary medicine
Mar 11, 2020
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The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions by about 25% in a recently published study—one in a series of Penn State studies of the investigational substance in the ...
Ecology
Feb 24, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia has found that dairy cattle have less stable personality traits during puberty. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes ...
Matching cattle to the land available to graze and the nutrition it offers is critical in optimizing production in an operation.
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2020
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Switzerland on Thursday reported an "atypical" case of mad cow disease but said there was no danger to human health.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 6, 2020
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