Cattle and other livestock farmers have had a bumper year raking in huge profits, partly thanks to high weaner prices.  

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.

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.

The cows kept by small-scale farmers in Africa are notoriously unproductive.