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In a small lane, by a kindergarten school in Bengaluru's Victoria Layout, the white bungalow has a garden fencing it. Pomelo, guavas, lemon, mango, and sapota trees are planted around a wooden patio table, in front of the building. At one corner is a

Gerri Tucker knew exactly what she wanted when she entered the milk aisle at Mariano's: Silk's Almond and Cashew blend, which in bold lettering boasts of 10 grams of protein per serving. "It's rich, it's thick, it has a wonderful taste," said Tucker,

From the barnyard to the pooch motel, people are increasingly warming to the idea that animals have their own thoughts and feelings.

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

Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011, the American Psychological Association recently described it as the dread and helplessness that come with “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying

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A new mathematical model explores the complex reasons herd animals stay with a group or leave it.

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.

Advocates of grass-grazing cattle say it's better for the environment and the animals. But there's another upside: Grass-fed meat and dairy fetch a premium that can help small farms stay viable.

How and why the lovable, mistake-prone Grover was selected to teach children about science, technology, and math

There are very good reasons why local and foreign hunters admire the Cape buffalo, and covet the opportunity to hunt one. They are, and will always probably be, the most numerous of all the Big Five, and as a result are generally more affordable than

Two hours. A matter of time. I would sit this stand until a coyote showed. It was pronghorn country, and this was the only water hole for miles. Then I heard ravens off to the east, downwind, croaking as if something had caught their attention. I thu

The backgrounding of beef animals takes place after they have been weaned and before they are placed in a feedlot. During this period, the animals are usually left to graze and, as a result, their daily growth is slower than if they were intensively

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