Undercover, slatted floor feedlot pens are proving a big hit with cattle producers in the US, particularly in the midwest where winter temperatures can drop far below zero compounded by blizzards and ...

A leading dairy herd has been bedded on recycled manure solids since opening its new cubicle house in 2019. The Laird family at Blythbridge Holsteins, West Linton, Peeblesshire, stress that keeping ...

Greenhouse gases act like a layer of window glass in the atmosphere: They prevent heat from being radiated from the Earth's surface into space. Methane does that 28 times as effectively as carbon ...

With fertiliser prices, remaining at all-time highs in early 2023 cattle slurry will be a key resource on farms to reduce the impact of high N, P & K prices. Firstly, retaining more slurry nitrogen (N ...

Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...