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Cattle

March 2025

  • 19 January 1978

    From the Observer archive
    The life of the lonesome cowboy, 1978

    The enduring romance of the Wild West was one thing, the tough conditions faced by ranchers quite another
  • Ayoreo community leader Carlos Diri Etacore, 56, leads a monitoring group in an area near the threatened forest reserve where they believe their uncontacted Ayoreo relatives to be in the Paraguayan Chaco on August 21, 2024. The Ayoreo leaders say that accelerating deforestation is increasing pressure on their isolated relatives, forcing them out of their territory and leading to more sightings. María Magdalena Arréllaga / The Guardian

    Uncontacted people
    The end of the Ayoreo? The race to find proof that Paraguay’s uncontacted people exist

    A vast ranch in the country’s Chaco region is quietly deforesting a huge swath of land. Indigenous people say this could be deadly for their isolated relatives but others say there is no evidence that anyone lives there
  • Beef farmer Glenn Morris plants and maintains trees, uses biological soil inputs and carefully grazes stock to rest paddocks and generate compost

    ‘Our moral responsibility’: Australia’s beef industry under pressure over deforestation as election looms

    From the end of 2025 exporters will need to prove products sold in the EU have not come from land that has been deforested since December 2020

February 2025

  • A beaver in Cornwall in a river near a dam

    ‘Ultimate bringers of life’: How one Cornwall farmer is using beavers to stop flooding

    Chris Jones is behind change in law to release beavers in England after witnessing the incredible benefits on his land
  • Photograph: Wayne Hutchinson/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming – podcast

    This week, from 2021: Between accidents, disease and bad weather, farm animals are prey to so many disasters that dedicated professionals are called out to dispose of the casualties. It’s a grim task, and one that’s only getting more difficult. By Bella Bathurst. Read by Andrew McGregor
  • A Holstein dairy cow looking down at camera as the herd walks past

    Conspiracy theory on methane-cutting cow feed a ‘wake-up call’, say scientists

    Social media storm of misinformation about Bovaer has drawn in Reform UK, the dairy industry and even Bill Gates

January 2025

  • Cattle on a hill with motorway in the background

    Country diary
    Country diary: A winter holiday for the cows

    Tebay, Cumbria: At many farms, the cattle will be in their sheds by now, and stay there till spring. We’re trying something a bit different

December 2024

  • H5N1 virus particles.

    Why California declared a state of emergency over bird flu

    The virus has spread for years in wild birds and commercial poultry, and was detected for the first time in US dairy cattle in March
  • A cows near a tree in a green pasture

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Can Colombia’s ‘crazy’ cattle ranchers make beef an eco-friendly choice?

    By rejecting traditional grazing and maintaining trees and wildlife habitats alongside pasture, farmers are turning their land carbon positive. But will it be enough?
  • a heard of cows

    US agriculture officials mandate testing of milk supply for bird flu

    USDA will test raw milk in attempt to stop spread of virus as more than 700 dairy herds infected since March

November 2024

  • A cow grazing on Coe Fen, a Cambridge common

    Cambridge could lose city centre cows if council cuts out-of-hours rescue service

  • Andrea showing her herdwick sheep at Kendal Mart

    Country diary
    Country diary: A tense day at the sheep auction

September 2024

  • Aldi Supermarket checkout

    Brief letters
    Beating Aldi cashiers at their own game

    Brief letters: Till tactics | On the shelf | Labour golfers | Cattle and poetry | Oxford Street

August 2024

  • Riding of the Marches on Scapa beach, Kirkwall.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A plucky band of riders wade into the waves

  • cows in a field

    US to survey dairy cattle brought to slaughter to study bird flu infections

  • The trial at Kerwee Feedlot involved feeding a commercial Asparagopsis supplement in the form of an infused canola oil over 200 days

    The rural network
    Feeding seaweed supplement to cattle halved methane emissions in Australian feedlot, study finds

  • Ice-cream made from horse milk. At an ice-cream maker in south London. 14-08-2024 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    Clean and bright or cloying and musky? Horse milk ice-cream taste test

July 2024

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

    Brazil court freezes assets of Dirceu Kruger to pay climate compensation for illegal deforestation

  • At least 22 cattle dead after truck smashes into Melbourne rail bridge in ‘horrific’ crash - video

    Almost one in three cattle on board a truck died, authorities have confirmed
  • A truck carrying cattle crashed into a rail bridge on Alexandra Avenue near Punt Road in South Yarra on Tuesday night. July 23rd 2024. Melbourne. Australia

    At least 22 cattle dead after truck smashes into Melbourne rail bridge in ‘horrific’ crash

    Some injured cows were euthanised while others were found dead on the truck at the South Yarra crash scene
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