Decisions surrounding breeding-season management are rarely black and white. While estrus expression has long been recognized ...

No need to make a stink: Controlling bovine flatulence could be key to helping curb global warming. New research suggests that breeding dairy cows to fart less — and, therefore, release less methane — ...

Researchers in Türkiye used an explainable machine learning framework combining XGBoost and SHAP to identify age and postpartum diseases as key drivers of delayed first insemination in dairy cows, ...

Calving season, the most labour-intensive part of a beef producer's year, could be shortened thanks to a new innovation out of the University of Saskatchewan. Cetrorelix, a hormone drug commonly used ...

The national Livestock Improvement and Breeding Goal (April 2025) sets a target for Kuroge Washu (Japanese Black) steers to reduce the age at which fattening ends from the current 29.5 months to 27.0 ...

A validated collar-based system predicts individual feed intake in dairy cows with research-grade accuracy using only ...

Another way of reducing methane is through breeding. It was noted that by breeding off the 10% of lowest methane producers, ...

Research from the University of Kent, the University of Nottingham and L'Alliance Boviteq Inc., has established a method of significantly improving in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in cattle. This ...