With its 49th annual conference approaching, the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) has opened registration and announced several deadlines for elections, award nominations, scholarship applications and
Iowa veterinarian James Edwin Pearson passed away on April 3, at the age of 82, according to an obituary in the Ames Tribune. Pearson spent three decades at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary
The FDA recently released its 2014-2015 Retail Meat Interim Report, summarizing data from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS). The report focuses specifically on salmonella, one of the most c
In our weekly “BQA Quality Report”, from Southeast Ag Net’s Randall Weiseman, Lindsay Wiggins from Clewiston, Fla., is another beef producer who believes in the BQA program. She says “it’s valuable because i
In this week’s “BQA Quality Report” from Southeast Ag Net’s Randall Weiseman, Keith Glover from Hale County, Ala., explains why he felt it was important for him to be BQA-certified. And Glover says he
Becoming Beef Quality Assurance (BQA)-certified allows us to share our story and ensure consumers that we are responsibly raising a safe, wholesome, and healthy beef supply. The checkoff’s BQA practices show us th
Merial introduces the 2016 LONGRANGE® (eprinomectin) Challenge. Though cattle prices are trending downward, experts say 2016 will still offer good profitability for producers. To help maximize those profits and optim
We’ve asked our readers to send us their “Tales from the field” to share on this site. The reader submitting the story with the most page views will win $50. Today’s story comes from Gary A. Thra
