George Bernard Shaw saw opposition to vivisection as both a human rights and an animal rights issue many years ago: “It is ...

From safe beaches, to affordable drinking water, to their own family members and lives, Iowans are losing a lot to factory farms’ pollution. Leaders must act. From safe beaches, to affordable drinking ...

The annual Irish Farmers Journal factory leagues again shows farmers could be up to €250 per head better off by choosing a different factory to sell their cattle to. In this example for U=3= cows, the ...

Published Jan 28 An ambitious plan to stamp out cases of lameness on British dairy farms over the next 20 years has been published. The GB Dairy Cow Lameness Manifesto, developed by the Dairy ...

To get its cow-free cheese onto diners’ plates faster, Those Vegan Cowboys is stepping up its regulatory efforts and aiming to secure fresh capital from investors. “We are currently raising €15M to ...

Other popular fluffy cows you see online are Highland cattle, a shaggy-haired, long-horn breed originally from Scotland and known for its hardiness. Lautner Farms, based in Adel, is home to the ...

Find out more by visiting our Improving Farm Productivity round 1 page. Pig farmers will be able to apply for a grant to cover up to 8 months’ worth of storage rather than 6 months’ worth, while ...

Dr. Katherine Johnson is President of Johnson Consulting Group. For 30 years, Dr. Johnson has worked closely with investor-owned, rural electric cooperatives, and municipal energy utilities ...

In a recent national poll sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), 91% of farmers surveyed said financial issues were affecting their mental health, followed closely by farm or ...

BUT BODY HEAT THAT IS KEEPING HUNDREDS OF COWS WARM AT THIS BEEF CATTLE FARM IN YORK COUNTY. IT IS WARMER IN HERE THAN IT IS OUTSIDE THE BARN AT THE TWIN PINE FARM HAS NO HEAT, BUT THE COWS ARE ...

It will take about a week to euthanize all those ducks. "And if this disease mutates like in a factory farm to infect workers, to infect humans, to get human-to-human transmission, we're looking ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...