Don’t underestimate the value of shade for beef cattle in the fescue belt according to Eldon Cole, livestock specialist, University of Missouri Extension. Management intensive grazing, where larger ...

This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. Josh Payne planted chestnut trees six years ago. The rows of nut trees haven’t ...

Cows in a pasture at the University of Missouri’s Wurdak Extension and Education Center near Cook Station, MO gravitate to the few trees in an attempt to get some shade on a hot August morning.

MORRIS, Minn. — The whirring sound of power being generated is met with cows chewing their cud and whipping their tails side to side under sunny skies near the University of Minnesota Morris. The ...

MORRIS, Minn. — The cows at West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris don't seem to care that they are part of multi-million-dollar research that may change the way agriculture and energy ...