Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Verena and Philipp Kienle run a farm for retired animals so they can escape slaughter. Bernd Weißbrod/dpa Three horses, called ...

Claire McCormack reports from Germany where she met Christoph Luepschen, a farmer who invested in a €4m AD plant.

BERLIN (AP) — A herd of dairy cows nearly lifted the roof off their barn in central Germany when methane released by the animals caused an explosion. Police in Hesse state said in a statement that a ...

For a cow to produce milk, she must give birth to a calf. Female calves later become dairy cows themselves, while male calves are surplus to the dairy industry’s requirements.