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 ...

The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost. As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in the animal ...

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.

Tests show a chemical extracted from daffodils can reduce methane production by a third when added to cow feed. Methane, a common greenhouse gas, is released by livestock like cows when they fart and ...