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Cool-Season Grasses More Profitable Than Warm-Season Grasses; Swine Effluent Provides Fertilizer Boost Equal to Urea
July 5, 2011 — Access to swine effluent or waste water can help a producer grow more grass. But a Texas researcher says the grass is "greener" economically if it is a cool-season rather than a warm-season variety. ... > full story -
A Microbiological 'Template' for Mitigating Methane Emissions
July 5, 2011 — In 2009, the US EPA calculated that 20 percent of the nation's human-related methane emissions were attributable to livestock digestive processes. Scientists have now sequenced the microbial ... > full story -
New Method Used to Detect 20 Drugs in Cow, Goat and Human Milk
July 5, 2011 — Researchers have developed a method that makes it possible to simultaneously detect 20 pharmaceutical products in cow, goat and human milk. The samples of the three types of milk studied showed that ... > full story -
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Foods With Baked Milk May Help Build Tolerance in Children With Dairy Allergies, Study Suggests
July 1, 2011 — Introducing increasing amounts of foods that contain baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped a majority of them outgrow their allergies, according to a new ... > full story -
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'Goat Plague' Threat to Global Food Security and Economy Must Be Tackled, Experts Warn
June 30, 2011 — "Goat plague," or peste des petits ruminants, is threatening global food security and poverty alleviation in the developing world, say leading veterinarians and animal health ... > full story -
Down-Under Digestive Microbes Could Help Lower Methane Gas from Livestock
June 30, 2011 — The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal's methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to try ... > full story -
Chillingham Cattle Cowed by Climate Change
June 13, 2011 — Spring flowers are opening sooner and songbirds breeding earlier in the year, but scientists know little about how climate change is affecting phenology -- the timing of key biological events -- in ... > full story -
Paving the Way for a New Livestock Feed Product
June 10, 2011 — A new product has come to market that could allow the cattle feeding industry to realize efficiencies in mills and put more weight on cattle, according to ... > full story -
Earth-Bound Asteroids Carried Ever-Evolving, Life-Starting Organic Compounds
June 9, 2011 — Detailed analysis of the most pristine meteorite ever recovered shows that the composition of the organic compounds it carried changed during the early years of the solar system. Those changed ... > full story -
Flooding of Farmland Does Not Increase Levels of Potentially Harmful Flame Retardants in Milk, Study Suggests
June 8, 2011 — As millions of acres of farmland in the US Midwest and South recover from Mississippi River flooding, scientists report that river flooding can increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants ... > full story
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