For dairy farmers, Valentine's Day looks a little different than the typical person. If your idea of romance involves more cows than candles and your "date night" is often spent in the barn, then you ...

Cow dung, or “cow pies”, as they’re more commonly known in Arkansas and other parts of the South, have quite a solid reputation. Dried, they can be used as fuel, thrown competitively like a discus, ...

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Cow comfort is important to milk production ... based free stalls had a 10 percent higher prevalence of lameness compared to deep-bedded stalls with sand. Herds using deep-bedded recycled manure ...

Kevin Herrman retrofitted his 250-cow free-stall barn to milk with ... 2,000-stall cross-ventilated sand-bedded free-stall barn. Their manure system is being designed to separate out sand and ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson ...

Sand brings its own set of problems: what to do with it after it gets kicked out of the stalls and mixes with manure. The layout and topography of 3-D Dairy lent itself to a flush-flume system. The ...

For centuries, nutrient-rich animal manure has been used to enrich the soil and boost crop production. Traditionally, cow and horse manure were the most readily available options. However ...

Cow burps, gas and poop. Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that seeks to gather better data on the scale and scope of methane emissions released by dairies and feedlots in the state.

Worth Rs 40 crore, Viatina-19 is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction in Minas Gerais, Brazil. AP There are hundreds of millions of cows in Brazil, yet one stands out. A veterinarian, and ...