Live microbes are reshaping dairy nutrition, offering new tools to support gut health, rumen stability and production ...

In view of the recent interest in studying the nutrition of wild ruminants in their natural habitats, methods are discussed which by application to killed animals in the field can provide information ...

The effect of alkali-treatment of mature perennial ryegrass hay on rumen fermentation and degradability in Friesian steers was examined. The herbage was either not treated (C) or sprayed immediately ...

Cows can adapt themselves to a fluctuating sodium content in their feed. How they do that was so far a secret. Researchers have now discovered a bacterium in the microbiome of the rumen which has a ...

Danish maker of bio-based ingredients Octarine Bio and US cell programming company Ginkgo Bioworks have partnered up to engineer a strain for producing violacein and its derivatives. Food colorants ...