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Holstein Association USA has announced John M. Meyer, CEO, will retire at the end of the year.
Weigh your cows and your calves this fall. Those measurements can help to determine if excess mature cow weight is robbing profit potential from your operation.
The Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center, a commercial-scale feedlot research facility, is set to open this summer at the University of Nebraska.
Michigan’s ag department will provide the grant money for to up to 20 farms from its emergency response funds.
The concept of measuring the flavor of food is extraordinarily more complex than simply measuring tenderness or juiciness and requires very specialized equipment.
Boehringer Ingelheim and Tuskegee University are expanding their partnership to foster diversity in the veterinary field. The College of Veterinary Medicine there has educated 70%-plus of African American veterinarians.
Cows still need to be handled during the hottest days of the year. Thus, taking the time to conduct a quick refresher on animal handling during hot weather is a necessary practice for you and your team.
Burnout, financial pressures and exhaustion are not just common issues for dairy and livestock producers, but also for the veterinarians who serve them and their animals.
Check out these practical ideas and recommendations offered by the four hard-working, dynamic bovine practitioners who made up the program committee for the 2024 AABP Recent Graduate Conference.
Rancher and four others consumed meat from a butchered lamb but only the rancher became ill, CDC says.
AngusLink’s Genetic Merit Scorecard adds a fourth score option to demonstrate the maternal weaned calf value to aid in the selection of replacement females.
The university’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center diagnosed several cases of blackleg in dairy heifers in 2023. Researchers there detailed how they believe the outbreaks were able to occur.
Jayme Souza-Neto at Kansas State University uses next-gen sequencing coupled with modern gene silencing/knockout technologies to learn more about the genes responsive to arboviruses and how each one functions.
When moisture and soil nutrients are readily available, sorghum-sudangrass and pearl millet can produce up to 6 tons of forage per acre during the growing season.
Having the right tools for the job can improve any management scenario. When it comes to raising calves, 5 helpful tools were emphasized at the recent Dairy Calf and Heifer Association Annual Conference.
Heat stress becomes a problem for cattle encountering hot temperatures, low wind speeds and other summer weather conditions. K-State beef extension Veterinarian AJ Tarpoff explains the remedies available to producers.
Research finds link between gestational nutrition from minerals and higher weaning weights.
CRISPR technology has many potential applications that facilitate sustainability, animal welfare and efficiency for the beef industry.
Is it early June or the middle of August? Because despite what the calendar might say, Mother Nature seems to be cranking up the thermostat earlier than normal this year.
Boehringer Ingelheim and the University of Minnesota launched the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Eradication Roadmap to equip veterinarians and producers with a resource to inform, prepare and guide them through eradication.
New polling shows majority of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents support legislation mandating “lab-grown meat” labeling and other restrictions.
We asked surveyors what avenues they are exploring to generate added profit to help with their farm’s overall profitability, and the results showed that branded beef and agritourism are leading the way.
The new Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein will be located in Raleigh, NC, on the campus of North Carolina State University.
The agency is introducing a new Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program to give dairy producers more options to monitor the health of their herds and move cows more quickly, while providing on-going testing.
Jessica Stephenson, a fourth-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine student, took an unconventional path to veterinary school.
Theileria orientalis Ikeda is a tickborne infection, and when identified in United States herds has been associated with the Asian longhorned tick, a relatively new tick species in the United States.
With low milk protein prices appearing to be the norm for 2024, many producers and nutritionists are reluctant to invest in high-cost protein ingredients.
Eligible candidates must be NMC members and enrolled full time at a college or university in a dairy, animal or veterinary science, microbiology or related program at the time of application deadline, which is July 31.
Consolidation continues across agriculture and America’s beef industry, Census finds.
This is the third human case associated with the virus. Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a plan to produce 4.8 million doses of a vaccine for human use to counter H5N1.