The milk-producing power of LED lightingconventional wisdom tells us that happy cows make more milk.
But what about cows housed in farms equipped with LED bulbs? One recent study overseen by Oklahoma State university suggests LED bulbs--championed for producing more light
while using less energy--cause cows to make more milk. The Oklahoma State study aimed to evaluate the energy savings of LEDS
The study found that cows living in areas of the barn outfitted with LED bulbs produced 6 percent more milk than those housed in spots using fluorescent lighting.
The average LED-lit cow delivered an extra half gallon of milk per day. The Oklahoma dairy farm owner who participated in the research wants to remain anonymous,
Less intense light directed on loafing areas could help cows relax. To be clear, this was limited a very study.
and cows in the months to come. The University of Missouri wants to start a study later this year
and over half the hogs from just four states to a new topography of distributed, diversified food production, we have to start supporting local food now.
These goats produce human breast milkthis Spring brought news of goats engineered to lactate the building blocks of a malaria vaccine.
Now Co. Exist reports on transgenic goats that produce milk with breast milk enzymes and proteins.
milking goats for drugs, or milking goats for human milk? And which work-around has a better chance of widespread adoption?
UC Davis scientists created the transgenic goats by transferring human genes for breast milk enzymes and proteins into goat embryos.
Co. Exist's Peter Smith reports: The transgenic dairy goats can make milk with up to about 60%of the lysozyme
and lactoferrin found in mother's milk, which means a longer shelf life (these chemicals kill pathogenic bacteria)
milk from these transgenic goats could provide the next-best alternative. The UC Davis team has been studying the engineered goats'milk for a number of years now to perfect the formula (no pun intended.
That's why for the last five years, SFO has hired a herd from Goats R Us to clear brush in a remote corner of the airport.
and nearly 400 other goats spent two weeks in June cutting away a 20-foot firebreak on the west side of the airport.
Chicago's O'hare International airport (ORD) has requested bids for goats to clear brush in an out of the way area of a 7, 000-acre property.
Goats R Us has about 4, 000 active goats on their payroll. These employees can also be found working away on the side of California freeways, at state parks, under long-distance electric lines,
these goats are sold not for meat! Rather, they get to retire at the farm and visit schools and senior centers.
Goats R Us
Tomorrow's truck loses weight, but at what environmental cost? Ford'S f-150 pickup truck is the best-selling vehicle in the United states it has been for 32 years.
I really wanted goat's milk. And it will never ever, ever be able to properly order me a dozen ripe avocados,
Adriã Â grilled an 80-lb amberjack fish steps away from where pitmaster Rodney Scott roasted a whole hog over a wood-burning pit.
Clothes made from cow's milkwhen milk goes bad, the standard protocol is simply to throw it out.
She will be selling her Couture from Cow's Milk designs for as little as $290. Related on Smartplanet Video:
The chemical could be contributing to spontaneous abortions and infertility in pigs, cattle, and other livestock,
and Glen Bull of the  Curry School of education at the University of Virginia, recently answered my questions about the project.
Bull: Producing and creating customizable manipulatives like base 10 rods, fraction cubes, geometric Tangram shapes all potentially support elementary students'mathematic proficiency and understanding in ways that the teacher controls.
Bull: The decision regarding participation by corporate partners will depend on the commercial outcomes. The decision regarding participation by academic partners will depend on
Bull: While the technology is in emergent state and there are certainly a number of technical challenges,
Glen Bull
With technology, Chicago gets a grip on its greenhouse gas emissionsphiladelphia may be building the greenest city in the United states,
The Spanish introduced cows to Mexico, and who could imagine Mexican food without cheeses and creams?
The idea of dairy cow manure producing electricity or pig feces paving roads didn't disturb me much,
but a train chugging down the track on cow fat gave me some pause yesterday.
and Oklahoma city on tallow the rendered fat of cattle. Tallow is also an ingredient of some soaps and candles.
The cows came from Texas. The P32-8 engine did need not much modification to accept the biofuel
that could be a lot of cows. That would also be a lot less pollution. In the name of reducing emissions and fuel usage,
helping those women buy a cow or learn a skill. Those are good things, but its not transformative into the community.
elephant poo is like the cow dung, which is worshipped by millions of Indians. Even his elderly mother has made peace with the poo.
A subspecies of Pyrenean ibex was cloned momentarily back to life. Credit: Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
such as the Asian gaur in 2001, but often with limited success. In 2009 Spanish biologists cloned the calf of an extinct subspecies of Pyrenean ibex from tissue samples preserved for that purpose,
but minutes after its birth the calf died of lung abnormalities (which have been cloned common among animals to date).
Moreover, all those cloning efforts crucially relied on the use of egg cells or surrogate mothers from living species closely related to the ones being brought back.
the nation's largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, is in hot water today after the company chose to remove a standard safety feature--side-curtain airbags--from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles
The Star's investigation found that hundreds of Impalas already sold had been advertised incorrectly online as having the safety feature.
Enterprise says the cost-shaving maneuver saved the company $175 for each Impala, or about $11. 5 million total.
Enterprise determined that 745 Impalas were marked incorrectly and that it would send letters to all 745 buyers notifying them of the problem.
While the Impalas aren't the only vehicles in which Enterprise removed side airbags--about 5,
a crop that has fed long the cattle that the food industry turns into burgers and steaks that groups like White Castle and Wendy's sell.
Steve Foglesong, a cattle producer and the former chair of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;
as well as attempting to breed cattle that are resistant to foot and mouth disease and pigs that contain heart-healthy omega 3 fatty acids.
It is aimed at genetically altering goats so their milk contains high levels of an antimicrobial enzyme to help infants ward off stomach infections, a problem that plagues the developing world's children.
like a cow with fins. It carries two bits of foreign DNA: a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a genetic switch from an eellike fish, called an ocean pout,
It's like releasing a cow into nature--it does not know how to survive, much less procreate,
Itã¢â â¢s like selective breeding in cattle to increase milk production or produce more beef per pound.
How wireless networks could keep cows from burping methanehere s a novel way to combat global warming:
Settle the stomachs of gassy cows. As it turns out, cow burps are a major contributor to global methane emissions,
a troubling fact considering the gas is even more potent than carbon dioxide. With 1. 2 billion methane-burping animals on the planet today, the digestive systems of livestock are worthy of examination.
By dropping electronic devices into cows stomachs, researchers hope to monitor what it is that makes the animals so gassy
the plan is to pop them in the stomachs of whole paddocks of cows and connect them with an ad hoc wireless network.
and stops it from moving beyond the rumen-the chamber in a cow or sheep's stomach where much of the gas production occurs.
By measuring how much and when cattle produce methane scientists hope to alter the cows diets to produce Šlow methane  animals.
CSIRO is also researching exactly how diet and feeding affect methane burps, Fast Co. Exist reports,
Cows and chickens still have an important role to play in a healthy biosystem. Even so, conventional livestock uses 70 percent of the world's agricultural land.
crickets need six times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of protein. With these facts in mind, the European union is investing some 4 million euros in a feasibility study of insects as protein in animal feed.
Hindus, who consider the cow sacred don t eat beef. Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean,
which works out to 1. 37 million cows per year killed for Mcdonald s in the United states alone.
It is associated an organization with cow slaughter. If we make an announcement that they're slaughtering cows,
people won't eat there, Â he said. Å We are definitely going to fight it. Â India, often described as a country of contradictions,
But there is a cow-buffalo distinction. The exported meat is water buffalo. The killing of male and female cows or even milk-giving buffaloes is prohibited by federal law.
Srivastava, however, doesn t see how a Mcdonald s opening up near Vaishno Devi Šhumiliates  Hindus.
Å It s just a foreign company making its investments, Â he said. Gita Arora, a homemaker
sees the cow-based opposition to Mcdonalds as Å pseudo. Â Å If one is so angry about cows being slaughtered in the US then why have any Mcdonald places?
 she asked. ŠSo it s okay to eat at Mcdonald s in Delhi but not in Vaishno Devi  doesn t make sense to me.
 ŠI don t think most people who eat in Mcdonald s are even aware about killing cows in America or wherever,  continued Arora,
Their cattle have open spaces to graze. We won't give up our jungle, she said. Everything will be destroyed.
Lamborghini SUV supercar may be a game-changerone good way of getting a better understanding of the kind of world we live in now is to take a look at the Lamborghini Urus, a SUV supercar concept vehicle unveiled yesterday at the Beijing Auto Show.
If the Urus goes into production, it will boast a 600 horsepower engine along with all-wheel-drive.
Volkswagon has stated that they plan to ensure that Urus debuts as the greenest luxury SUV (translation:
Urus will boast the lowest CO2 emissions. SUVS stand for freedom and emotion, says Stephan Winkelmann, the president of Automobili Lamborghini.
The Urus is a very concrete idea for the future of Lamborghini. Want more? Check back here tomorrow for a special preview of a car from the future.
Sheep and goats. The livestock will graze on graveyard grass so that the town does not have to pay humans with high-tech equipment to do so.
They rented the two sheep and two goats from a farmer in the area, and put them to work immediately.
sheep and goats can chew a higher percentage or a lower percentage of what needs to be chewed down in direct proportion to how fast the grass is growing,
And grant me one more generalization--most third world countries have plenty of goats. Where am I going with this?
Co. Exist reports that Texas A&m researchers have engineered goats that can produce a malaria vaccine in their milk.
If you produce these proteins in goats and other transgenic animals, it s way more efficient,
In another application of this technology, scientists at UC Davis have reared goats that produce milk with an antidiarrheal disease enzyme.
and economic needs than their moral squeamishness and put the goat milk cures into widespread use in the near future. via Co. Exist Photo:
Meet the Maverick: the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
For the first certified Maverick's vanity plate, FLY CAR seemed an appropriate choice. As for the hardware, it's a lithe, 900lb vehicle reminiscent of a dune buggy.
The Maverick Sport should be available for purchase in time for Airventure 2011 a yearly air show held in July.
the Maverick Sport has a unusual creation story. The mastermind of the project, a missionary named Steve Saint, created the Maverick not to indulge some kind of sci-fi whim,
but to solve practical transportation problems in the developing world. From CNN: What we're doing here at
'The Maverick flying car is just one piece of the puzzle for I-Tec. We've been working on this particular project for six years,
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
grass-fed cattle made the situation even worse for the environment. Per kilo of beef produced, cattle on grass produce at least 50%more methane than cattle fed grain
because they need more grass, he said, and it s the digestion by the ruminant digestive system that produces the methane.
A significant letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack points out that alfalfa is a major source of forage for dairy cows.
If organic dairy producers cannot get uncontaminated organic alfalfa to feed their cows, they will not be able to get their milk certified as organic.
agriculture, in the form of raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle. What's surprising is that many industries produce chemicals that actually cool the globe, according to the study.
For example, anticoagulant ATRYN is produced in the milk of genetically modified goats and if current methods to create these types of animals can be improved,
I've previously reported on efforts to produce goats that synthesize the human breast milk ingredients
Masson eventually received a photograph from the Ferme de Paris of four black sheep, and the ball began to roll.
So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.
and 5, 000 cattle were ordered slaughtered and the rest were left to starve to death.
Sensor swilling cattle can alleviate world hunger  Slip this Texas longhorn a sonar mickey, connect to big data,
Keep cattle healthy. Cows get so routinely sick that they undermine the planet's tenuous food supply
and cost the global economy an estimated $60 billion. Â U s. startup company Vital Herd has a solution:
Slip a sonar device down a bovine's gullet and it will sit in the gut, emitting precise information about the digestion that's churning away or not.
Rig up a wireless receiver in the cattle yard, and you can capture that intelligence, spotting early warning signs that the animal isn't feeling so well.
getting the most out of your cattle as you learn how, what and when to better feed them.
Forty per cent of dairy cows get ill each year. The cause can be early lactation, the type of feed they are receiving or one of a very large spectrum of health complications.
Danone, the manufacturer of Aptamil and Cow And gate baby milk powder, said most supermarkets were introducing a restriction of two cans per customer.
so that all of our cow leather is sourced from grass-fed, free roaming Argentine cows, providing a better life for the cow as well as preventing marring of the hide.
We choose hides from cows that are also being used for beef so that no part of the animal is wasted.
Additionally, we believe that the people involved in creating our collection should also be treated with consideration and fairness,
so we ensure that all of the craftsmen working on our items receive fair wages and benefits.
Villagers defy supermarkets A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarkets by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
They say thefts have been reported at bee farms across a wide area-from the New Forest in Hampshire to Whitby in North yorkshire.
You hear about sheep rustling and cattle rustling, but you never think in your wildest dreams that bees could be targeted,
Iran Produces First Cloned Goat in theisfahan-Iranian scientists have cloned successfully a goat by its own account.
With the goat"Hana"Iran is among the only five countries worldwide, where the cloning of goats had succeeded Isfahani said.
In 2006, Iran became the first country in the middle East announced the birth of a cloned sheep.
Not only is the Orgacids product being used in chicken egg farms it is used also in feed for pigs, fish, prawns and cattle in China.
it doesn't come from a cow at all. Dr. Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht in The netherlands
The project, funded by a wealthy, anonymous, individual aims to slash the number of cattle farmed for food,
because cows are among the least efficient animals at converting the food they eat into food for humans."
"Cows and pigs have an efficiency rate of about 15, %which is pretty inefficient. Chickens are more efficient
"Post and his team of six have grown so far thin sheets of cow muscle measuring 3cm long, 1. 5cm wide,
Each piece of muscle is made by extracting stem cells from cow muscle tissue and growing them in containers in the laboratory.
The cells are grown in a culture medium containing foetal calf serum, which contains scores of nutrients the cells need to grow.
Post said he could theoretically increase the number of burgers made from a single cow from 100 to 100m."
500th Robotic Cow Milking Systema decreasing number of farmers are getting their hands dirty, lest they gunk up their smartphone.
That means that hundreds of thousands of cows all over the world are producing tens of millions of liters of milk per day at the pumps of robots rather than the hands of farmers.
it essentially a boxed area that the cows walk into and are milked at their leisure.
The cow just walks into the milking station 3d cameras target their teats with a teat detection system,
and milks the cow. After milking a series of brushes cleans the cow and a swinging feeding trough oeencourages the cow to leave
and make way for the next in line. The appeal of the Astronaut A4 isn t only that it automates the milking process,
it also automates milk testing right at the milking station and pushes the data to the farmer smartphone.
An automated brush system not only cleans the cows and cuts down on milk contamination but through tactile stimulation will trigger the hormone oxytocin that stimulates milk production.
It the state-of-the-art, automated cow milking system that farmers have grown to love. To commemorate their 12, 500th customer,
While it not clear that it makes the cows happier as Lely claims, what is clear is that the platform sure has farmers whistling Dixie
A ten-year plan to phase out live animal exportstemporary bans on live cattle and sheep export have undermined confidence in the industry,
It is not economic to truck cattle thousands of kilometres to the nearest abattoirs, Brisbane or Perth.
In some cases, certain foods, such as cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, yeast products, nuts,
Grazing ruminant animals, like cattle and sheep, also contribute significantly to climate change. Commentsview/Create comment on this paragraphhere, too,
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