In many ways, the research pens at Colorado State University are what you’d find on your standard cattle feedlot. There are cows, of course, plenty of mud, and the inevitable, nostril-turning stench ...

The biggest source of climate-warming methane in the U.S. is animal agriculture. America's biggest cattle feedlot operator is funding new research, with motives beyond reducing greenhouse gases. The ...

BURBANK, Wash. — Alika Conley and his cowboys circulate through the J.R. Simplot Co. feedlot several times a day looking for cattle that are depressed or not doing well. Conley is the feedyard manager ...

The placement of new cattle inventory on U.S. feedlots was less than expected by surveyed analysts, even with those analysts projecting a sizable drop-off in those placements. In its latest monthly ...

Cattle’s soundless belches are sending millions of pounds of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado hopes changing their diet will limit those expulsions.