Tag: cattle
New tick species found in Michigan: what to know
Asian longhorned ticks were recently found in Michigan for the first time. A team of students and researchers at Calvin University discovered the species in a routine environmental surveillance check in Berrien County.
Beef Is The Highest Carbon Food?
There is an idea floating around online that because fossil fuel corporations generate the most greenhouse gas emissions and therefore are the most responsible for climate change and its impacts that individual humans don’t really need to do much to reduce our own personal carbon footprints. This reasoning doesn’t make … [continued]
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Are There Practical Solutions To Methane Emissions From Cattle?
Today is the 4th of July in the US. Around the country people will be firing up their grills and eating juicy hamburgers. Few party-goers, though, will think about the methane emissions that result from vast herds of US factory farmed-cattle. Scientists have been trying for years to find just … [continued]
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How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.
The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered comprehension.
Newcomers to the seemingly endless grasslands that once spanned approximately a quarter of North America often hit a psychic wall, descending into fits of mania.
Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week Prize goes to third-generation dairy farmer
Dr. Cole Radbourne recently started his career as a veterinarian with Metzger Veterinary Services in Chesley.