Millions of preschoolers can tell a pig from a cow, but when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, can adults hold up their end of the discussion? Marlowe and Chad, aka the Bacon Buddies and hosts of the “Raised on the Farm” podcast, sit down with Frank Mitloehner to talk about food choices — and why they should remain so — how swine farms and cattle operations differ in respect to GHGs, the U.S. animal ag emissions report card and most of all, why we need to keep talking and learning. 

Billing their show as “ag like you’ve never seen or heard it before” and the place “where food news and pop culture collide,” millennials and farmers Natalie Kovarik and Tara Vander Dussen are in cyberspace each week with provocative, enlightening and entertaining convos that shed light on the what, the where and the how of our food supply. 

By Emily C. Dooley

Published on UC Davis, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Not all cattle are the same when it comes to grazing. Some like to wander while others prefer to stay close to water and rest areas. 

Source: Lallemand 

MILWAUKEE – Feb 22nd, 2024 – Madison Kindberg, a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, pursuing a master’s degree in animal biology, is a recipient of a $3,000 Lallemand Forward Scholarship.

California’s cattle ranchers contribute a significant amount to the region’s culture, economy and food supply, but do they also inadvertently help to temper the wildfires that have been plaguing the state? And if so, is it a better alternative – environmentally speaking – to letting grasslands burn?

Yanhong Liu, an associate professor of animal nutrition and a member of the CLEAR Center at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), is bolstering the work of the five-year-long international PIG-PARADIGM study currently underway. In addition to lending her well-regarded expertise in animal nutrition and experience gained from her work to reduce antibiotics use in swine, Liu and other faculty from UC Davis are leading a project team of postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates in nutrition, microbiology and big data analysis.

This news release is based on information communicated by the CDFA.

Several months after the California Department of Food and Agriculture; University of California, Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and UC Davis CLEAR Center staged the State of the Science Summit: Feed Strategies to Reduce Enteric Emissions May 2 and 3, 2023, organizers have issued a written report to capsulize some of the information shared at the conference and to encourage others to join them in a spirit of cooperation aim

Among the many challenges facing hog farmers in the United States is the commonly occurring incidence of post-weaning diarrhea. At best, the affliction requires the administration of antibiotics; at worst, it results in the spread of infection among weaned pigs, at times leading to more diarrhea, loss of appetite and even their death.