North Dakota lawmakers are still sorting out a thorny agricultural issue getting to the heart of local zoning restrictions for animal feedlot operations. The state is looking to revise standards ...

A new study out Monday finds that even in the most optimistic scenarios, grass-fed beef is no less carbon-intensive than ...

“So, once that animal’s ID is read, we can allow it to either have access to feed or not, and we can also control for how long.” Between the Feedlot Technology Center, the two confinement ...

The chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal of a Winona County board's denial to waive the ...

“There is a change in the distance (from 4,000 feet to a half mile) and a change in the maximum numbers (of animal units). It’s a little different, but similar,” he said. With the feedlot ...

The first is a cow/calf operation aimed at breeding, and the second is an animal feedlot operation aimed at raising cows until they can be sold for processing. Wagner's cow/calf operation takes ...

Industrial animal operations release a variety of air pollutants from their confinement barns or feedlots, waste-management systems and land-application areas. These noxious pollutants (including ...

Temple Grandin is a distinguished professor of animal science at Colorado State in Fort Collins. She proved doubters wrong and changed her field.