At Vaqueria El Remanso, a small dairy farm west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the cows are different—they have a freshly shaven, suave look. Their short hair is the result of a natural mutation known as ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug 8 (Reuters) — When Canadian dairy farmer Ben Loewith's calves are born next spring, they will be among the first in the world to be bred with a specific environmental goal: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Hiroshima University-led project has secured a $1.8 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop a way to store bull semen ...

A Finnish researcher has demonstrated the impact of two candidate genes on the protein and fat content of milk and on the overall milk yield from dairy cows. The work also involved devising a method ...

Brazilian scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) collaborating with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a dairy ...

Livestock contribute significantly to global agricultural economy and are a major source of rural livelihood and food security. As global human population increases, so does the demand for ...

Scientists provide an insightful review of how US dairy industry breeding selection objectives are established, as well as detail opportunities and obstacles related to new technologies for ...

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Lay Htaung Kan Village, Myanmar – Small scale dairy farmer Zaw Oo from this village in southern Myanmar may seem an unlikely beneficiary of nuclear science. But an isotopic technique used to breed ...

The Viltain Farm, with its market of local products, its dairy cows and its fields where you can pick your own food, is the ...

Peter Mungai tends to his cows in Gathigi village, Githunguri, Kiambu County. He has 80 cows, which he breeds for sale. Peter Mungai is a police officer who is attached to retired president Mwai ...