The days of guess work in breeding dairy cattle are gone. Today's DNA sequencing means more productive cows and less pollution. Breeding cattle through artificial insemination began in the 1940’s.

In a remarkable stride toward environmental sustainability, farmers are actively engaged in the practice of selective cow breeding, aiming to reduce methane emissions and thereby reaffirming their ...

Scientists have validated a genetic variant that supports selective breeding to improve the survival rates of cattle infected by East Coast Fever (ECF). In a study published in PLOS Genetics, ...

A $53 million effort drawing on the work of over 300 researchers has, after six years, produced something of great value to evolutionary biologists and farmers alike: the complete cow genome, which ...

A British genetics firm plans to create less-gassy cows — meaning fewer climate-heating emissions. Genus Plc’s breeding program is intended to create “envirocows” with less-gaseous digestive systems, ...

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Much of the news on climate has been discouraging of late. Europe had its ...

Indonesia’s cattle have long been known for their diverse genetic heritage - mirroring the diversity of the people in the world’s largest archipelago. New Danish-Indonesian research uncovers an ...

Underneath the lazy demeanor of a cow is a complex digestive system that transforms grass into the complex carbohydrates cows need to live. A byproduct of that digestion is methane—a lot of ...