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Beef Sales Increase $3.5 Billion During Pandemic
Beef Sales Increase $3.5 Billion During Pandemic

Spiking cases of COVID-19 have forced restaurant and foodservice to scale back once again, and dollars are flowing back into retail meat departments at a record pace.

Watch Out Bambi! New Lighting System Reduces Deer-Vehicle Collisions 
Watch Out Bambi! New Lighting System Reduces Deer-Vehicle Collisions 

Deer-vehicle collisions account for about 1 million accidents each year that kill 200 Americans and result in $1 billion in vehicle damage. A new vehicle-based lighting system may prevent these collisions.

Range and pasture represent one-third of the continental U.S.
Integrity Beef Sustainability Pilot Project Completes Two-Year Study

The Integrity Beef Sustainability Pilot Project completed its innovative two-year study to validate, track and trace beef sustainability claims across all segments of the supply chain.

A Special Message from Your Editor on #FieldDays
A Special Message from Your Editor on #FieldDays

During the virtual show, our team of experts will bring our valuable content to life with informative sessions from farms directly to your screens.

NCBA Kicks Off Campaign to Generate Dietary Guidelines Comments
NCBA Kicks Off Campaign to Generate Dietary Guidelines Comments

NCBA has launched a nationwide campaign to encourage cattlemen to submit public comments supporting beef’s role in updated dietary guidelines.

Avoid the commingling muddle when it comes to your profits and expenses.
Understand How Personal And Business Credit Intersect

Avoid the commingling muddle when it comes to your profits and expenses.

Farm Journal invites you to join producers from across America at this free event at #FJFieldDays, a virtual extravaganza.
New ‘Field Day’ Program For Livestock Producers, Industry Members

Farm Journal invites you to join producers from across America at this free event at #FJFieldDays, a virtual extravaganza.

Consistency Rules in Preventing Abomasal Bloat in Calves
Consistency Rules in Preventing Abomasal Bloat in Calves

Abomasal bloat is a frustrating, mysterious, and often acute disease that affects young preweaned dairy calves, sometimes literally overnight.

Post-Mortem: Ruminal Tympany Or Bloat in the Feedlot?
Post-Mortem: Ruminal Tympany Or Bloat in the Feedlot?

These images depict a steer calf that had been on feed for 272 days with no treatment history when it was found dead in the pen.

 Zoonotic Diseases Contribute To Collaboration Between DVMs, MDs
Zoonotic Diseases Contribute To Collaboration Between DVMs, MDs

Six out of 10 infectious diseases in people today are zoonotic based, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a bovine veterinarian, what can you do to address the problem? 

Skunks and other wildlife, such as bats and foxes, are the most common reservoirs of rabies.
3 States Report Rabies In Cattle

Several cases of rabies in cattle, including dairy and beef animals, have been reported this year.

The new school of veterinary medicine is taking shape.
Texas Veterinary School Takes Shape

Construction of the School of Veterinary Medicine is on time and progressing as planned, according to Billy Breedlove, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction at the Texas Tech University System.

New Study Supports Value of Feeding Transition Milk
New Study Supports Value of Feeding Transition Milk

The common industry practice of feeding first-day colostrum and then switching calves directly to whole milk or milk replacer may be under review.

Feeder heifers
Texas Tech Investigates Antimicrobial Resistance in High-Risk Cattle

An award to Texas Tech from USDA is part of a near-$3 million investment from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to mitigate antimicrobial resistance across the food chain.

Dairy Herd
New Dairy Care365 Biocontainment Training Module Available

The module focuses on best practices to follow to assure dairy animals have fewer disease challenges that impact health, productivity and profitability.

If you're looking for continuing education opportunities, check out the five upcoming webinars AABP has scheduled for this June and July.
5 Professional Development Webinars Announced

If you're looking for continuing education opportunities, check out the five upcoming webinars AABP has scheduled for this June and July.

Danelle Bickett-Weddle
Danelle Bickett-Weddle: Perspective Is Invaluable To Progress

Look for veterinarians and producers to work together more closely in the months ahead to make farms more resilient, through the use of contingency planning and improved standard operating procedures.

American Association of Bovine Practitioners
Check Out What's New From The AABP

A major mission of AABP is to provide its members with relevant bovine continuing education. Here is a handful of the highlights from the past few months.

Early identification followed by appropriate intervention is key to successfully treating any disease.
Managing The Costs Of Metritis With Early Detection And Treatment

Early identification followed by appropriate intervention is key to successfully treating any disease.

Get a Better Handle on Digital Dermatitis
Get a Better Handle on Digital Dermatitis

While there may not be a cure for this lameness causing disease, digital dermatitis can be easy to manage if you know what to look for.

A nuisance to animals and people, adult flies continue to lay eggs if adult fly and larval populations are not controlled.
DCHA Webinar Addresses Fly Control And Its Economic Impact

The program will address types of flies found on cattle and in facilities, the economic impact of flies and how to control them.

Deworming cattle on a timely basis can improve both meat and milk production as well as overall herd health.
Additional Bottle Sizes of Dewormer Now Available

Eprinomectin kills 39 species and stages of parasites

Zoetis Launches INHERIT Select, A Genomic Tool For Cow-Calf Producers
Zoetis Launches INHERIT Select, A Genomic Tool For Cow-Calf Producers

New genomic test offers Genomic Expected Progeny Differences (GEPDs) on crossbred animals.

AVMA
Recipient Of 2020 Animal Welfare Award Announced By AVMA

The award is presented to an AVMA member veterinarian in recognition of their achievement in advancing the welfare of animals via leadership, public service, education, research/product development, and/or advocacy.

One in five Wendy's out of beef
Wendy's Faces Beef Shortages At Some Restaurants

Analysts say 18% of Wendy's restaurants are out of beef and the chain is "more exposed" to shortages due to the company's reliance on fresh, not frozen, beef.

Farmers are quickly adapting to COVID-19 challenges so their products can safely and efficiently travel from farm to the hands of consumers.
5 Ways COVID-19 Has Transformed the Food Supply Chain

Here are just a few of the ways COVID-19 is recasting the supply chain.

Large gatherings are on hold across the country because of the coronavirus.
AVMA Convention 2020 Cancelled Due To COVID-19 Concerns

AVMA's top priority is the health, safety and well-being of the veterinary community, convention attendees, vendors, speakers and exhibitors.

Signal to Noise: Was USDA Slow to Act?
Signal to Noise: Was USDA Slow to Act?

In this week's DC Signal to Noise Podcast, Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesmeyer takes USDA to task for a slow response to the coronavirus pandemic, particularly when it comes to meat packing plants.

Cesarean Selection Success
Cesarean Selection Success

Veterinarians have at least eight options for doing a cesarean section (c-section) in cattle, but most rely on only one.

“Courage is Grace Under Pressure”
“Courage is Grace Under Pressure”

“Courage recognizes the significant work of farmers, their families, farm communities and all who are engaged in feeding the world.”

Veterinary practices interested in taking advantage of the new Paycheck Protection Program or other disaster-related loans should move quickly and urgently, working with a lender to get applications completed.
New COVID-19 Loan Funding Will Deplete Quickly: Be Prepared

Veterinary practices interested in taking advantage of the new Paycheck Protection Program or other disaster-related loans should move quickly and urgently, working with a lender to get applications completed.

Federal lands grazing
Three Ranches Apply For Hammond's Grazing Permits

At least three ranches have applied for BLM grazing permits on 41 square miles of Oregon range that was previously allotted to the Hammonds who were the subjects of a controversial legal case.

Cargill Idles High River Plant, Reopens PA
Cargill Idles High River Plant, Reopens PA

Cargill is temporarily closing its High River, Alberta, beef plant due to an outbreak of COVID-19 at the facility. Meanwhile, the company says it has re-opened its processing facility in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

23 State Cattle Groups Call for DOJ Investigation
23 State Cattle Groups Call for DOJ Investigation

The organizations request a formal investigation by the Department of Justice to identify and investigate any evidence of fraudulent business practices within the beef meatpacking industry.

People versus business is a false choice. We have to save the people in order to save the economy. The idea of sacrificing a few for the good of the many has a strange parallel which should be familiar to farmers: international trade.
John Phipps: Saving People is Saving the Economy in COVID-19 Recovery

People versus business is a false choice. We have to save the people in order to save the economy. The idea of sacrificing a few for the good of the many has a strange parallel which should be familiar to farmers.

COVID-19
New COVID-19 Resources From AVMA

Industry support is available.

Top 10 Winners of the Drovers “Show Us Your Bulls” Photo Contest

Find out who won the latest Drovers photo contest!

“Kelly is dumping roughly 35,000 lb. per day,” Johnson says. “That amount was determined by logistics, but it turns out to be a good amount for us to be able to feed, so we’re able to offset those losses by feeding the dumped milk back to the cows.” 
A Farmer and Her Nutritionist’s Experience Feeding Dump Milk to Cows

When New York farmer Kelly Hendrickson was told she would have to start dumping milk, her milk inspector planted a seed in her mind.

Economic assessment study conducted by NCBA.
COVID-19: Cattle Industry Losses Estimated At $13.6 Billion

Estimated cattle industry losses due to COVID-19 will reach $13.6 billion, according to a study by ag economists conducted to assist USDA in determining how best to allocate CARES Act relief funds to cattle producers.

Trump Administration to Unveil $15.5 Bln Coronavirus Farm Aid
Trump Administration to Unveil $15.5 Bln Coronavirus Farm Aid

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $15.5 billion in the initial phase of its plan to bolster the nation's food supply chain against the impacts of the coronavirus outbreak.

Spring burning in Kansas Flint Hills
Kansas Spring Burns Continue Despite State Request

Despite a request from KDHE to reduce range burning, monitoring equipment has detected six instances in which levels of ozone or particulate matter exceeded safety benchmarks in Kansas.

Derrell Peel: Meat Production Threatened With Disruption
Derrell Peel: Meat Production Threatened With Disruption

The U.S. meat industry faces unprecedented threats as COVID-19 sweeps through labor forces nationwide.  Production of beef, pork and poultry are simultaneously threatened by labor availability and processing capacity.

#FarmOn
What It Means to #FarmOn

Montana farmer Michelle Jones, known as Big Sky Farm Her, offers observations on what it means to #FarmOn.

Farmers from across the country are being asked to dump their milk this week, as the restaurant and food service demand crumbled rapidly due to COVID-19.
As Dairies Dump Milk, Frustration Mounts Over Retail Buying Limits

Farmers across the country are being asked to dump their milk, as food service demand crumbled rapidly due to COVID-19. Still, farmers are frustrated that consumers can't buy as much milk as they want right now.

Top 10 Veterinary Colleges Announced
Top 10 Veterinary Colleges Announced

Three U.S. schools are included in the list.

David Dutton, DVM
Texas Tech Adds Large-Animal Veterinarian To Staff

The university's hire will benefit the equine and food animal industries.

Need A Way to Temporarily Keep Newborn Calves Warm? Try This
Need A Way to Temporarily Keep Newborn Calves Warm? Try This

This rancher’s innovative calf box keeps newborn calves out of the wind and warm until they can be brought to the barn.

Take Care of Yourself Even in the Midst of Crisis
Take Care of Yourself Even in the Midst of Crisis

Are you operating at peak capacity? A veterinarian shares why it’s so vital to take care of you.

With the direct contact method, a susceptible animal becomes exposed through physical contact when the agent from an infected animal or the environment enters open wounds, mucous membranes, or the skin through blood, saliva, nose-to-nose, rubbing, or biting another animal.
Clinical Refresher: The Five Routes of Disease Transmission

Concerns about COVID-19 have people worried about the health and safety of their families, businesses and livestock. Here’s a recap of the methods in which disease is spread.

The betacoronavirus that causes COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2 (formerly 2019-nCoV).
Resources Available To Address COVID-19

AVMA and other organizations are stepping up to fill the information void for veterinarians.