PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand — More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps -- or methane emissions.

New Zealand announced Tuesday a proposal to tax greenhouse gases farm animals produce, including burping and peeing, as part of its efforts to address climate change. According to the country's ...

Federated Farmers, the industry's main lobby group, said the plan would “rip the guts out of small-town New Zealand” and see farms replaced with trees. Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the ...

Reporting from Vernon County, Mo. — Kevin van der Poel remembers the skepticism and suspicion when he moved here more than four years ago from New Zealand to raise dairy cattle. When he started ...

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing farm animals’ greenhouse gas emissions as part of its efforts to reduce the pollution that is causing climate change. The tax would be the world’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand (AP) — How do ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Farmers across New Zealand took to the streets on their tractors Thursday to protest government plans to tax cow burps and other greenhouse gas emissions, although the ...

New Zealand has rid 271 farms of a disease known to decimate cow populations, effectively eradicating it from the country. The bacterial disease, Mycoplasma bovis, causes immense pain in cows as it ...

Two Canterbury farmers have been convicted after a mother cow was skinned alive as the act was livestreamed to viewers on social media.

A vet discovered the animal had an ongoing infection after it arrived at an abattoir.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The ...

How do you stop a cow from burping? It might sound like the start of a humorous riddle, but it's the subject of a huge scientific inquiry in New Zealand. And the answer could have profound effects on ...