Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals with four compartments in their digestive system that let them re-chew and ...

Discover more about the digestive process of cows and feeding beef cattle, to cultivate a healthy herd on even the smallest homesteads. Beginning farmers usually do pretty well with gardens, chopping ...

Cows are notorious for chewing their cud, but did you know this is actually a key part of their digestive process? This chewing of cud, also called “ruminating,” is one feature of an interesting and ...

David Dunn is no stranger to poop jokes. In fact, for Dunn, as the manager of a program that converts cow manure into energy, they are an occupational hazard. “One [person] likened my name, Dunn, to ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Thanks to an expensive piece of machinery, dairyman Eric Tevelde is now running his entire operation on recycled cow waste. "We'd probably be paying between $50,000 and ...

Cows' burps and farts speed up climate change, but a recent discovery from researchers in Australia could lessen the problematic cow gas and potentially reduce greenhouse gases by up to a whopping 99% ...

It takes two days to train a cow to milk itself. This may sound like a farmer’s utopia, but at Bakerview EcoDairy, a robotic milker is just one of many dairy farm innovations being put to use. Bill ...