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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite oft-repeated claims by sources ranging from the United Nations to music star Paul McCartney, it is simply not true that consuming less meat and dairy products will help stop climate change, says a University of California authority on farming and greenhouse gases. http://www.physorg.com/news179521331.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:20:01 EST news179521331 Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news178722388.html Biology Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:20:01 EST news178722388 Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the United States to look into the possible effects of climate change on cattle nutrition. http://www.physorg.com/news177603445.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news177603445 (AP) -- Trucks that could be hauling livestock along the Kansas and Oklahoma border were detained and their drivers questioned Thursday, during a drill aimed at protecting the nation's food supply from foot-and-mouth disease. http://www.physorg.com/news175502052.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:20:01 EST news175502052 (PhysOrg.com) -- Doppler technology -- the very same technology used by meteorologists to track thunderstorms -- is being used by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to better understand the rate at which fescue toxicosis restricts blood flow in cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news175356918.html Biology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:40:02 EST news175356918 (PhysOrg.com) -- Genetic information from an extinct species of bison preserved in permafrost for thousands of years could help improve modern agricultural livestock and breeding programs, according to University of Adelaide researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news175251993.html Biology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:07:02 EST news175251993 Pairing a new approach to prepare ancient DNA with a new scientific technique developed specifically to genotype a cow, an MU animal scientist, along with a team of international researchers, created a very accurate and widespread "family tree" for cows and other ruminants, going back as far as 29 million years. http://www.physorg.com/news175191686.html Biology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:00:03 EST news175191686 (PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have discovered why Holsteins -bred to produce more milk -are less fertile than before breeding efforts were stepped up to increase dairy production: It's in their DNA. http://www.physorg.com/news173955686.html Biology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:30:01 EST news173955686 With more than 2 million cows on 68,000 farms, Missouri is the third-largest beef producer in the nation. Due to rising feed prices, farmers are struggling to provide feed for the cows that contribute more than $1 billion to Missouri's economy. University of Missouri researcher Monty Kerley, professor of animal nutrition in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, is studying how cows might be able to gain more weight while consuming less, potentially saving farmers up to 40 percent of feed costs. http://www.physorg.com/news173611731.html Biology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:40:02 EST news173611731 (PhysOrg.com) -- Livestock manure isn't often thought of as a value-added product, but researchers at Montana State University and MSU Extension are trying to change that. http://www.physorg.com/news172920305.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:03 EST news172920305 (PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Rinella, faculty in Animal and Range Science at Montana State University and an ecologist at the Fort Keogh Agricultural Experiment Station in Miles City, recently published the results of a 16-year study in the journal Ecological Applications. http://www.physorg.com/news172920210.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:01 EST news172920210 As Larry Clay tends cattle at D&D Ranch, massive dump trucks growl nearby, hauling off rock stripped away to uncover coal. The Perry County ranch site was a hillside covered in trees before Pine Branch Coal Sales mined it, leaving behind flatter areas reclaimed as pasture land. These days, the ranch has 800 to 1,000 acres of pasture where cattle graze as mining continues on other areas of the sprawling property. http://www.physorg.com/news172252361.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:00:01 EST news172252361 A team of scientists led by CSIRO's Dr Kishore Prayaga has been awarded a prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize for its work to develop a simple genetic test which has the potential to end the need to dehorn cattle in Australia. http://www.physorg.com/news169898016.html Biology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:55:09 EST news169898016 Stable isotope data published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Richards of the University of British Columbia and the Max Planck Institute, suggests that at least some of the European early modern humans consistently consumed fish, supplementing their diet of terrestrial animals. http://www.physorg.com/news169187809.html Other Sciences Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:00:02 EST news169187809 An area of chromosome 6 that affects cattle carcass weight has been identified using two different Japanese species. Knowledge of this four-gene region, described in the open access journal BMC Genetics, should be useful in breeding beef cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news168600120.html Biology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:22:53 EST news168600120 DNA analysis shows that Indonesian zebu cattle have a unique origin with banteng (Bos javanicus) as part of their ancestry. http://www.physorg.com/news161410438.html Biology Wed, 13 May 2009 05:24:01 EST news161410438 Beef farmers can breathe easier thanks to University of Alberta researchers who have developed a formula to reduce methane gas in cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news160927285.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 15:01:51 EST news160927285 The genetic predisposition of cows has an effect on the fat and protein content of their milk. Researchers at Wageningen University have spent the past few years examining the scope and significance of genetic variation between cows for the differences in quality characteristics of milk. They have discovered a number of genes that contribute to this genetic variation. http://www.physorg.com/news160215986.html Biology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:27:30 EST news160215986 Dwindling federal funding jeopardizes important animal and biomedical research, together with the institutional research programs that focus on them, a group of Michigan State University scientists warn. http://www.physorg.com/news159715972.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:33:19 EST news159715972 Researchers report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals. http://www.physorg.com/news159715395.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:23:57 EST news159715395 In an effort to curb the illegal use of steroids in the European beef industry, scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting the development of a new test that can identify steroids with higher accuracy, more convenience, and less cost than conventional doping tests. Their report is in the current issue of Analytical Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news154359998.html Chemistry Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:46:49 EST news154359998 Using equipment not all that different from what a runner might take on a jog, veterinary researchers at Kansas State University are working to make life more comfortable for cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news154106973.html Other Sciences Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:30:11 EST news154106973 (PhysOrg.com) -- Cattle and sheep grazed on natural grasslands help maintain biodiversity and produce tastier, healthier meat, according to a study by the University of Exeter. The research concludes that pasture-based farming is good for the environment, the consumer and the producer but needs stronger support from British policy makers if it is to realise its full potential. http://www.physorg.com/news152544705.html Biology Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:32:11 EST news152544705 (PhysOrg.com) -- A cow with a name produces more milk than one without, scientists at Newcastle University have found. Drs Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson have shown that by giving a cow a name and treating her as an individual, farmers can increase their annual milk yield by almost 500 pints. http://www.physorg.com/news152379845.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:44:27 EST news152379845 Cattle and sheep grazed on natural grasslands help maintain biodiversity and produce tastier, healthier meat, according to a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The research, part of the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme which draws together the social and natural science, concluded that pasture-based farming is good for the environment, the consumer and the producer but needs stronger support from British policy makers if it is to realise its full potential. http://www.physorg.com/news151140196.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:23:16 EST news151140196 Last winter, government agencies killed one third of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd due to concerns about the possible spread of a livestock disease to cattle that graze in areas around the park. Such drastic measures may be unnecessary, however, according to researchers who have assessed the risk of disease transmission from Yellowstone bison to cattle. http://www.physorg.com/news150991706.html Biology Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:08:26 EST news150991706 Pomegranate peel left over from production of the juice renowned for its potential health benefits can make a nutritious feed supplement for cattle, researchers in Israel report in an article in the November 12 issue of ACS' biweekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The peel packs some of the weight-boosting and health-enhancing effects of antibiotics and hormones without the detrimental effects, and researchers say it may yield meat with higher levels of beneficial antioxidants. http://www.physorg.com/news147956627.html Chemistry Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:03:47 EST news147956627 Prion protein, a form of protein that triggers BSE, is associated with other brain diseases in cattle, raising the possibility of a significant increase in the range of prion disease. Publishing their findings in the open access journal BMC Veterinary Research, scientists have detected changes in the production and accumulation of the prion protein in the brains of cattle with a rare neurodegenerative disorder. http://www.physorg.com/news141989399.html Medicine & Health Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:59 EST news141989399 High feed-grain prices and the growing interest in "natural" foods have spurred both consumers and farmers to consider grass-fed beef, and a recent study done by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences researchers may reinforce this trend. http://www.physorg.com/news137084264.html Other Sciences Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:57:44 EST news137084264