The cow’s amazing ability to sustain ... As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in the animal’s stomach — ...

An analysis of 750 Danish dairy cows suggests that in addition to the animal’s genetics, the mix of microbes in its rumen also has an independent effect on the amount of methane a cow produces.

The research is published in the journal Animal Frontiers ... methane production in the largest of the cow's four stomach compartments, the rumen, which can be tested to help mitigate methane ...

“We’ve spent thousands of years breeding the animals to make them as efficient ... Hoofprint’s feed additive tweaks the microbiome in a cow’s rumen and suppresses the growth of microbes ...

Specifically, Hoofprint’s product makes adjustments in the rumen, a cow’s first and largest stomach ... will fund large-scale animal trials in New Zealand starting next year.

“Heat stress coping behaviors is what we see when cattle are adapting to warmer temperatures,” he says. “Whenever we get hot, ...

The microbes that digest fiber — and those that produce methane — live mostly in the rumen, the first and largest of a cow’s four stomachs. Most of this methane, often referred to as enteric methane, ...