MORE than 18,000 cows were killed and one person injured after a fireball explosion ripped through a family dairy farm. The blast at South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt, Texas, on Monday has been dubbed the ...

Experts are trialling a dietary supplement which aims to cut cows’ methane emissions – in the hope of reducing the dairy industry’s greenhouse gas output. Methane emitted by cows belching is being ...

A major UK trial of a controversial feed additive designed to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane gas by dairy cows has ended. Arla Foods, owner of the UK's largest dairy co-operative, is now ...

Dairy cows could be fed methane suppressants as part of a plan to cut down on greenhouse gases from farming. The government says it is planning to "encourage" the use of the suppressants - which can ...

The controversy began last week after several British supermarkets teamed up with the Danish-Swedish company Arla Foods to announce a 90-day trial of Bovaer, a new feed additive that aims to cut ...

Rasdorf, a small town in central Germany, has just hit the headlines because of exploding cows. To be accurate it wasn’t a bovine bomb but rather a build up of methane in a poorly ventilated cow shed.