As temperatures rise, New Zealand's dairy farmers face a growing challenge: keeping cows cool enough to remain productive. Heat stress can reduce milk production, harm animals and lower the ...

Scientists herald CRISPR-Cas9 as a potential way to treat a variety of diseases with genetic underpinnings. New research shows that it may be used to make animals—cows in particular–resistant to ...

A genome-wide association study in Romanian dual-purpose cattle reveals how a subtle phenotype-definition choice manufactured ...

The £16.6m scheme is designed to analyse the genetic make-up of every cow in Northern Ireland.

There is a lot of research aimed at ways to reduce the amount of methane released from cows—and since dairy cows eat and process more feed than beef cows, much of the focus has been on dairy cows.

The greatest improvements in milk production in dairy cows in the past decades have been due to genetic selection. Nutrition, health management and fertility (to become pregnant, have a calf and start ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from aurochs — large, wild cattle that co-existed with humans for millennia — reveals how early humans tamed these beasts and bred them with domesticated cattle for strength ...