Grain-fed cattle emissions are 80–85 per cent lower than grass-fed animals on average, due to the high energy, lower fibre and increased digestibility of grain-based diets.

UPTON — Grouped below a red maple tree, the languid cows sense a meal even before brewer Jay Rondeau hops onto the bed of his Jeep. He has hauled bins of steamy spent grain to this muddy pasture ...

Feeding insects instead of grain to animals is an inexpensive, sustainable way to increase the world food supply.

Learn whether cows prefer a diet of grass or grain, and which is best for the planet.

For every 100 calories of grain fed to a cow, just three emerge as beef. Along with other feed crops and pasture, rearing animals also uses land that could produce human food.

The students finished the tour with Sassy Cow chocolate milk and ice cream. The FFA thanks Duffy Grain and Baerwolf Dairy for hosting the Grain Adventures Program today; it was a huge success!

But Consumer Reports notes that even when grass-fed cows have reached slaughter weight, the cattle still tend to be smaller than their grain-fed relatives.

Ruminating cows "Not all animal-based foods are created equal," said Gidon Eshel, a statistician at Bard College in upstate New York who studies the energy cost of various agricultural practices.

Feeding the world means hogging less grain How many people can the Earth support? Depends on their level of food consumption. At the U.S. average of 1,763 pounds of grain per person annually for ...

In the increasingly industrial world of North American cattle production, organic farms are the exceptions. While other farmers send their calves off to crowded feedlots to be fattened on grain ...