Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals with four compartments in their digestive system that let them re-chew and ...

Tracking system could make it easier to trace and check spread of disease. The Department of Agriculture today announced plans to develop an enterprise architecture for a national system for tracking ...

The cow enters this futuristic system and is recognised by an identification responder, which begins the process. The system can access historical data of each cow, knows the position of the teats and ...

CALMAR, Iowa (AP) -- How much wattage is there in a cow? Dan Meyer figures about 100 watts. While most people look in a dairy barn and see cows, Meyer, an agricultural engineer for Iowa State ...

Preventing mad cow disease is all about controlling what cows eat, but federal regulations are full of loopholes and enforcement is lax, according to consumer advocates and the government's own ...