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Tommy Ferreira: It was so fast. The fire came from the top of the mountain to the village in 15 minutes.April Reese: 2016 was a bad year for cattle producer Tommy Ferreira. A severe wildfire tore across his pasture outside the tiny village of Souto in northern Portugal. He lost a cow, and much of his forage went up in smoke. The soil was so deeply scorched that nothing would grow.Tommy Ferreira: I had to spend way more, because I had nowhere for the cows to graze. So they would feed just on hay for quite a while.On…

The cattle producers tending to their animals in the yards at the National Western Stock Show in Denver on Wednesday were fighting the cutting, cold winds. But when it comes to the industry itself, ranchers for now are riding tailwinds of strong customer demand and high cattle prices. “It’s a great time to be in the beef industry,” said Amanda Hilbrands of the Hilbrands Cattle Co. in Clara City, Minn. Although high cattle prices mean higher prices at the grocery store, consumer demand remains robust, agricultural…

The earliest cities in Europe were built on the foundations of a mostly vegetarian diet, according to new research. The findings suggest that even with the dawn of agriculture and large, planned settlements, meat was but a delicacy.The gigantic circular cities of the Trypillia culture emerged around 6,000 years ago in what is now Ukraine and Moldova.The largest of these mega sites covered an area equivalent to several hundred football fields of land and once housed up to 15,000 people. They were larger than any other…

The 118th edition of the National Western Stock Show officially kicks off this weekend on its historic stomping grounds, which are in the middle of a makeover to turn the 250-acre complex in northeast Denver into a year-round attraction. Depending on the weather, the 16-day event could set an attendance record, said Paul Andrews, stock show CEO and president. The record is 726,927 visitors, set in 2006 on the event’s 100th anniversary. Last year’s total of approximately 702,000 visitors was the stock show’s fourth-highest…

A look inside the MEPS reactor (Methane Eradication Photochemical System), where chlorine atoms are formed by UV light and react with methane gas. Credit: Morten KrogsbøllIn a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases from livestock housing, biogas production plants and wastewater treatment plants to benefit the climate.The Intergovernmental Panel on…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedHumans eat a stunning amount of meat every year — some 800 billion pounds of it, enough flesh to fill roughly 28 million dump trucks. Our carnivorous cravings, particularly in industrialized, beef-guzzling countries like the United States, are one reason the planet is warming as fast as it is. Raising animals consumes a lot of land that could otherwise soak up carbon. Cows, sheep,…

Inside an agricultural exhibition building at the Calgary Stampede, kids practise rotating cattle through different areas of pasture, earning "carbon points" as they go if they can avoid under- or overgrazing the land.They're playing Guardians of the Grasslands, a computer game that was produced with funding from a government grant program, the charitable arm of the Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) and Ducks Unlimited Canada, which conserves and restores wetlands. The game is based on a short documentary of the same name…

It’s not often that a venture capital firm gets to back a startup again after it has exited — especially one that is still a private company. So when Builders VC got the call that the founders of cattle management software Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA) were looking to spin out from Zoetis, which acquired them in 2020, to keep scaling, Builders general partner Mark Blackwell said he was “jumping for joy.” On Tuesday, PLA announced that it would be spinning out from Zoetis with $7.5…

NEW DELHI : In a move to protect vultures, the government is contemplating a ban on Ketoprofen and Aceclofenac, two pain-relieving veterinary drugs…

Cows grazing in a designated wilderness area in California’s Modoc National Forest. Though cows are permitted and allowed to graze here, in Gila Wilderness the animals are “unauthorized.”Photo: Lauren Leffer / GizmodoIf all has gone according to schedule, then today federal officials from the U.S. Forest Service climbed into helicopters with high-powered rifles and set their sights on cows. A planned “lethal removal” of about 150 un-owned cattle roaming New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness in Gila National Forest was set to begin…