The country's current supply of fresh milk is entirely imported, but that is about to change with the introduction of New Zealand's Holstein cows.READ»
Cows fart. A lot. And their gasses don't just smell--they also spew toxic greenhouse gas emissions like methane and nitrous oxide. Thankfully, Jen Phillips at Mother Jones points us to this handy chart that crunched the numbers on ...READ»
Energy-generating treadmills for humans? Been there, done that. William Taylor, a farmer in Northern Ireland, has decided to put idle cows on treadmills to produce power for his farm, according to Popular Science. The inclined belt ...READ»
It doesn't prevent industrial dairy cows from being packed into small quarters, but the CowDetect RFID tracking system at least allows farmers to keep track of animal health and schedule milking and fertilization for maximum ...READ»
