LAKE CITY, MI – Two facts about Michigan agriculture are scarcely recognized outside the fences and beyond the drainage ditches of the state’s 45,000 farms. The first: farming is among the most ...

Livestock production has been shown to be economically important and is related to increasing incomes in poor rural areas. Consumption of livestock products has important health benefits and a modest ...

Cattle, whether grazing in small herds along the roadside or lowing singly from a nearby field, are an emblematic sight for much of Africa, as characteristic of the continent as the yoked oxen of ...

Cattle producers are basking in the glow of high prices right now, but the one constant in farming is that high prices lead to lower prices. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Livestock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cows eating hay and soy-based feed. United Soybean Board/Flickr, CC BY The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge ...

Livestock is responsible for more ecological damage to the western landscape than any other human activity. However, few accounting of these impacts is ever compiled. One source is my book Welfare ...

Ian Scoones receives funding from the European Research Council through an Advanced Grant for the PASTRES project (www.pastres.org). With world leaders gathered for the COP26 summit in Glasgow, there ...