Bovins domestiques

Let's imagine that we've ended global warming. Humans no longer are releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.

Around the country, dairy farms are struggling to stay open, embracing technology may be one way to make them more efficient.

Dairy farmers have seen low milk prices before, but the current downturn has been severe in its duration. As some dairy farms fail, others are finding new paths forward.

Dr. Thumbi Mwangi had a eureka moment when he began researching a cattle disease in the U.S. The treatment was the same thing his dad the farmer had him do when he was growing up in Kenya.

It is winter in upstate New York, on a morning so cold the ground squeaks loudly underfoot as sharp-finned ice crystals rub together. The trees look like gloved hands, fingers frozen open. Something lurches from side to side up the trunk of an old sy

IN the UK we tend to keep horses and farm livestock apart. Horses belonging to farmers may be turned out with the cattle or sheep, but, on the whole, equines are managed separately. Of course, this is artificial. In pre-ice Age Britain, wild horses g

Health management is a critical factor affecting the profitability of a cattle operation. Yet establishing, maintaining and improving an effective health programme for a beef or dairy cattle herd can be difficult due to the many variables and unantic

“African cattle breeds are astonishingly diverse, and often quite beautiful. They range from the dark-red Ankole of southern Uganda, with their enormous, heat-dissipating horns, to the Boran, which thrive in the dusty plains of northern Kenya, to Eth

Educated and experienced, Harry Russell-Bowen has a clear view on the changes necessary for faster growth in organic sheep and beef farming – producers will need consistently higher returns and more of them will need to shed old ideas about ‘producti

Cattle are a mainstay of agricultural production, and there are an estimated 983 million head of cattle on the planet, according to statista.com. 1. Cows kill more people each year than sharks. According to the journal Wilderness and Environmental Me

The Western Cape currently produces approximately 14% of the national beef output. The contribution by smallholder producers is relatively small and the animals used for production are from many and varied breeds. The aim of the Bull Project of the W

Most people don’t put enough effort into calf training. They say, “You’re either born with big calves or not. It’s all genetics.” Yes, calves are stubborn. But so is your girlfriend, and you haven’t given up on her yet. Right? Try a five-second pause

When a large milk buyer decided in 2001 that it was no longer worth its while to collect the milk from small dairies in the Western Cape’s Droëvlakte area, the Kasselman family of Klein Soebattersvlakte, en route to Stilbaai, decided to help out. At

New research from Michigan State University in the US demonstrates significant improvements in cow productivity with specific fatty acid supplementation through early lactation. The concept of feeding fat in dairy rations is nothing new; the energy-d

Each morning after milking their cows, the female dairy farmers of Zambia used to walk for an hour and a half to reach the nearest depot, by which point the milk had often spoiled and lost value. Enter Onyx Connect, a tech start-up offering women pay

Champion credentials Warden of The Fishmongers' Company (www.fishmongers.org.uk)and New England Seafood founder I suppose you could say that the sea is my countryside. What gets me out of bed every morning is the world of fishing, plus I’m passionat

Homeostasis is the tendency of a body to maintain a stable internal environment in response to changes in external conditions. On a very hot day, for example, an animal will instinctively seek to maintain stability by keeping in the shade, drinking m

A legal case spanning more than seven years, involving a cow leasing arrangement, has finally been concluded with the accused in the case, Cornelius Loggenberg, being sentenced to an effective 25 years imprisonment by the Kroonstad High Court. Ten ye

Having a breeding (and calving) season can optimise the reproductive performance of a breeding herd and the pre-wean growth rate of calves. This, in turn, can profoundly influence the profit margin of a beef cattle enterprise. The aim of a breeding s

“The Afrikaner is a low-input animal with good-quality beef. Herein lies the real value of the breed,” says Jacquies Steenkamp, who registered his Derus Afrikaner Stud in 1996. Today, he runs 240 Afrikaner female animals, half of which are registered

In agriculture, biosecurity refers to procedures to reduce the risk of infectious diseases being transmitted amongst animals. It is an important factor in the livestock industry. Symptoms of a disease may not always be obvious, especially in the earl

Livestock production systems are the world’s largest users of land resources, and the situation in Southern Africa is no different. Approximately 84% of the surface area of South Africa is available for agriculture, of which only about 13% is arable.

Like too many other black farmers in South Africa, David Rakgase of Rakgase Farms in Northam, Limpopo, has spent decades being refused the right to buy the state land he had been living and working on for decades. The 74-year-old Rakgase, who runs a