WILLMAR -- With the federal Food and Drug Administration rule change on rendering of 30-month or older cattle set to change April 27, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health is encouraging beef and dairy ...

Merced — Every time a cow dies on a dairy farm, it could cost the owner $115 to have a rendering company pick it up. As a result, many dairies have held on to a long-standing solution: hauling the ...

OTTERTAIL, Minn. — A University of Minnesota study comparing compost barns to other livestock housing supports claims that cows in compost barns have greater longevity. Margot Rudstrom, University of ...

Compost bedded pack barns represent an innovative alternative to traditional housing systems, offering a dynamic environment where dairy cows benefit from continuously composted bedding materials.

Since cows stay inherently cleaner using composting rather than the bedded-pack method, cows are healthier, officials said. The somatic cell count -- bacteria level in milk -- of cows at the Grazing ...

What do you do with a dead cow? It's not a theoretical question in many parts of Vermont. "Deaths come," says Teddy Yandow, a dairy farmer in St. Albans. He says he loses a couple of cows every year ...

KEEDYSVILLE -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture banned down cows from the food supply following the discovery of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy-infected cow in December. Faced with fewer options ...

The Hardin County Extension Office will host mandatory certification programs for beef quality assurance and morality ...

Walmart will soon stock an Idaho company’s all-natural compost, produced from dairy cattle waste. Cowgirl Compost LLC, of Boise, passed the first round of this year’s open call, which lets local ...

TORONTO, S.D. — A custom feedlot near the South Dakota-Minnesota border is fast becoming an innovator in turning bedded pack manure into a value-added soil additive — “humus compost.” Owners Chad and ...