“The holy grail of nutrition is to increase efficiency by leveraging the opportunities of the rumen,” said Jeff Tikofsky, ...

Up close, they are beautiful and evocative — at least more than you might imagine for tiny organisms that live inside the stomachs of livestock and help generate planet-warming gases. Known as rumen ...

Specific microbes in gut of Angus cattle and how those microbes influence nutrient absorption and feed efficiency will be the focus of a new study by UTIA animal scientists. The work will study the ...

As Irish dairy herds continue into the grazing season, lush grass offers huge opportunities for low-cost milk production. But without careful management, rapidly fermentable grass and periods of heat ...

It all starts with a cow. These gentle, grass-chewing giants are the foundation of an entire food system built on milk. When a dairy cow becomes pregnant around one year of age, she begins a ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen—the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an ...

Although they may look like fancy tulips, the high-resolution 3D fluorescence images above actually show two different types of rumen ciliate. The single-celled organisms live in ruminant stomachs and ...