At COP26 this month, 105 countries including the US, Canada and Brazil promised to reduce their methane gas emissions by at least 30% within eight years.

Obtaining a fast, efficient fermentation is critical to the success of the ensiling process. In silage fermentations dominated by homofermentative lactic acid bacteria, crop sugars are rapidly converted, mainly to lactic acid.

Soybean meal is an excellent protein source for many livestock species and it is currently the most common protein component in compound feed for pigs, poultry and dairy cattle.

It’s a common scene across many African countries’ rural areas: cows grazing peacefully. But, by 2050, heat stress induced by climate change may drastically alter this familiar picture.

The drive for genetic selection means cattle are increasingly vulnerable to deadly new epidemics that could emerge as the climate warms.

Soaring global gas prices have initiated a crisis in the UK pig sector as a shortage of CO2 used to stun pigs before slaughter could force farmers to cull their own healthy stock and dispose of them, instead of sending the animals to the food chain.