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Graduate student Miriam Martin sees a bright and profitable future for a cattle industry that’s willing to tackle tough topics like animal welfare and pain mitigation.

Modern dairy shelters provide the five freedoms of animal welfare that are essential to cow comfort and animal husbandry.

Spending more than half of her day lying down, a cow will concentrate approximately 12-14 hours per day towards resting.

Two dairy farmers experiencing some of the coldest temperatures in history offered these tips to fight frostbite.

With beef liver prices depressed at around $3 at the packer level, liver condemnations due to abscesses represent a relatively minor economic problem.

Developed over the last year and a half by the AVMA Committee on Antimicrobials and other volunteers – a group of nearly 50 microbiologists, epidemiologists and species experts – the report examines pathogens of concern and outlines actions veterinarians and their teams, producers, breeders and animal owners can take to slow and limit the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance through stewardship.

Cattle lice infections can affect the health and performance of our cows and stocker cattle during the winter months.

Security experts share four tips to educate consumers and protect your farm from activists.

Producers need to review their “game plan” for summer and be ready for warmer weather to help minimize the effects of heat stress in dairy herds.

Tick infestations can sometimes go unnoticed, especially during winter.

Brazil expects the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to declare the country free from foot-and-mouth disease with vaccinations at a meeting in May, according to a government statement on Friday.

As cannabis in the form of industrial hemp receives crop status in the 2018 farm bill and cannabis is examined for its potential uses for both pain relief and in animal feed, what is the veterinarian's role?

The tightened guidelines, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2017, require producers to obtain authorization from a veterinarian to purchase medically important antibiotics.

Because of a slow, six-to eight-week incubation period, anaplasmosis often turns up in cattle herds around this time of year, as the disease emerges in herds exposed to ticks or other vectors during the summer.

On-farm research performed last winter in upstate New York provides new insights into how to keep calves healthy in even the most brutal cold-weather conditions.

New USDA Policy enables more U.S. research and vaccine development for foot and mouth disease (FMD), but biosecurity precautions and approval processes will take several years, says UDSA Chief Veterinarian Jack Shere.

Brazilian officials have confirmed an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in the state of Mato Grosso.

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.