Maintaining a healthy cow herd means maintaining a healthy rumen. Over the holiday season, humans may experience stomach ...

Before we talk about using sugar for dairy cows, we need to understand what we are discussing. Sugar is a carbohydrate and ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and cows are a major source of it. A group of scientists is developing a proof of concept for a vaccine that would curb methane emissions in cattle.

Ensure a smooth transition to spring grass with expert grazing strategies, rumen health tips, and nutritional advice to boost cow performance ...

microbiologists believe hundreds more species in this genus inhabit the rumen. “Utilizing bacteria as a product is a challenge, because they are hard to isolate in a way that can be fed to cows ...

An on-going project studying dairy cow subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) aims at getting exact data from cows` rumen around calving in field circumstances. With modern equipment, it is possible to ...

It's very common every spring to hear about suckler cows going down with Tetany, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy ...

The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost. As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in th ...