Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the ...

California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock. Despite ...

The drop in milk production for an individual cow or farm can be quite large — recent reports from California show that an infected cow can lose up to 100% over a few days, and later return to ...

STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. — Central California is home to nearly 1.6 million dairy cows and their manure — up to 192 million pounds per day.

Biofuel experts say digesters can reduce air pollution. Home to about 1.7 million cows, California is the country's leading dairy producer and a large contributor of methane.

California is America’s dairy capital, with more than 1.7 million cows producing about $10 billion worth of milk last year — but these cows and other livestock in California also produced the ...

Bird flu outbreaks sent egg prices soaring in recent months, in some cases north of $9 per dozen. While the virus also spread to dairy cattle, the outbreaks didn’t seem to boost California milk ...

A cow was trapped in mud for possibly an entire day after a mudslide in southern California, and the animal was so exhausted it couldn’t stand up on its own, rescuers said. It took five hours of ...

A new report authored by California health officials describes a raw-milk-related outbreak of Salmonella that sickened dozens ...

March 5, 2008 -- Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new energy.