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Nominations are now open for the 2018 National BQA Awards! If you know someone deserving of this award, visit www.bqa.org for the application and nomination requirements. Applications are due by June 2, 2017, and should
Is BQA certification on your to-do list? It should be because it is now always FREE, online! That’s right - your opportunity to become BQA-certified, or re-certified, is at your fingertips 24/7. So what are you waiting
Pivotal efficacy studies conducted for FDA approval showed a 28 percent reduction in clinical mastitis.
Very few consumers have the opportunity to actually step foot on a feedyard or a cow-calf operation to see BQA in action, yet the BQA program provides answers to many consumer questions.
Get to know Colorado rancher Luke Larson, partner in six feedyards in Colorado, Kansas and South Dakota.
Animal diseases can cause serious social, economic and environmental damage, impact on animal welfare and in some cases directly threaten human health. These diseases ignore borders. Livestock provides one third of huma
Dr. Dan Thomson, College of Veterinary Medicine at K-State University, says now is the time for beef and dairy producers to get their FREE Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification.
Beef producers all across the country, from every segment of the industry, are being encouraged to participate in a survey that will help establish a benchmark and course for the beef industry for 2017 and beyond.
The Texas Veterinary Medical Association (TVMA) is celebrating National Veterinary Technician Week, which runs from October 16-22, by promoting its new membership for Licensed Veterinary Technicians (LVT).
For the third consecutive year, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) is offering Future Service Scholarships to support future cattle veterinarians graduating from the Iowa State University (ISU) College of Veter
A good read: “5 Fast Facts About the New FDA Antibiotics Guidelines”. Get the facts on what you need to know!
Iconic beef-cattle veterinarian Al Abdulla passed away on May 27 in Amarillo, at the age of 82. A Texas native, Abdullah graduated from Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in 1957. He also was commissioned as a Cap
Check out Cow Vet Cody Creelman’s video blog where he is doing a post mortem for what he describes as a “mock c-section... kind of.”
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
Nutritionists’ capability to find farm efficiency values can be key to client success maintenance in a year of low prices.
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
Study results indicate culture-based treatment can be more economical than blanket treatment.
GVL® announced a partnership with Pharmgate Animal Health. This new relationship will assure Pharmgate Animal Health’s antibiotics are a part of GVL’s FeedLINK® electronic Veterinary Feed Directive (eV
Researches found that the ano-genital distance (AGD) in dairy cattle may be predictive of fertility in both heifers and cows.
Caudal vena cava thrombosis is a common disease of feedlot cattle, particularly later in the feeding period and in specific breeds or classes of cattle.
Abomasal bloat can come on so quickly that calves appearing perfectly healthy at one feeding are found dead at the next.
Digital dermatitis, commonly known as hairy heel warts, is an incurable disease caused by an infectious organism commonly found on dairy operations. Treatment should reduce the pain and maintain the lesion in a “chronic” state that does not worsen.
