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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.

But they will improve animal well-being, and possibly your bottom line.

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.

Once approved, FARM's Version 4.0 becomes effective Jan. 1, 2020.

Worldwide, about 23% of dairy cattle experience lameness issues, with three types of hoof lesions causing most of those problems, says University of Wisconsin veterinarian Nigel Cook.

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.

Until the onset of her first lactation a dairy heifer doesn’t make any money for the farmer; in fact, she costs a considerable amount of money.

Explore ways to address two of the main issues affecting calf health and comfort during summer months.

Improving animal welfare and employee safety—that’s the top two goals driving the creation of the industry’s first robotic cattle mover.

Flies are more than just an annoyance for calves in warm weather. High fly populations also can spread diseases among calves; cause stress and reduced immunity; and negatively impact growth and weight gain.

One lesson COVID-19 has taught our country is agriculture is essential. “We can't replace people getting up and doing the chores," says Dan Thomson, chair of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.

Many victims of animal injuries are the result of being stepped on, kicked, fallen on, crushed by cows or mauled by dairy bulls and gored by animals that have not been dehorned.

New Zealand said on Monday a fourth dairy farm has been hit by a bacterial cattle disease that can seriously affect animal health but was becoming confident that the outbreak has been contained.

Dale R. Woerner, a meat science researcher who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Texas Tech, will start this fall as the Cargill Endowed Professorship in Meat Science Sustainability

Heat stress occurs when a cow’s heat gain is greater than her ability to lose it. Balancing heat gain and loss over a 24 hour period is the goal.

Maintain quality from the cow to the calf.

At the recent 2019 Feeding Quality Forum in Amarillo, Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB®) brand president John Stika spoke to the changes in “ideal” since 1991. 

Researchers from the College of Veterinary Medicine have developed a faster, more efficient method of detecting Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STEC, in ground beef, which often causes recalls of ground beef.

In times of low milk-feed margins, optimal stocking density is often one cow per stall.