Beef - General
Market forces and regulatory actions will drive emphasis on disease prevention and antibiotic stewardship.
Letter says Harvard faculty members falsely accused Texas A&M scientists of selling out to industry interests.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the progress the agency is making to implement programs funded by the 2018 Farm Bill.
In research with potential implications for breeders and wild herds, scientists have detected the presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in semen and sexual tissues of prion-infected whitetail deer bucks.
MatMaCorp has translated genetic risk factors, ARRDC3 and NFIA, into a rapid and cost-effective test for BCHF, an untreatable, fatal condition prevalent in feedlot cattle in the Western Great Plains of North America
Parasites are becoming increasingly resistant to drugs that were generally effective against them in the past.
Market forces and regulatory actions will drive emphasis on disease prevention and antibiotic stewardship.
Colorado State University has announced the creation of a first-of-its-kind collaborative to support profitable, sustainable and healthy livestock production.
FDA’s annual summary report on antimicrobial sales for use in food animals shows a small year-over-year increase in 2018, but the total remains well below pre-VFD levels.
The move is the latest step toward opening the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo in 2021.
As we enter a new year and a new decade, antibiotic stewardship remains on the top of issues affecting food-animal veterinarians.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is now offering Washington ranchers a quicker, more cost-effective way to report cattle sales and out-of-state movement of their cattle.
Over the past few years, cannabidiol (CBD) has become wildly popular as a dietary supplement and “natural” treatment for a laundry list of health conditions in humans and animals.
Animal drug compounding can provide tailored treatments for patients or conditions not easily addressed with FDA-approved drugs, but the practice also entails some risks.
This year’s 9th Annual Antibiotic Symposium expanded its focus to include scientific updates on antimicrobial resistance, research, technology and innovation.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has, so far, remained confined to deer and related cervids, but scientists increasingly urge action to protect public health.
New program will place Texas A&M researchers on the front lines of the nation’s food and livestock industry.
The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) is accepting nominations for geographic areas of Texas experiencing a shortage of veterinarians that work in food animal medicine, rural private practice, or public practice.
Behind the scenes, animal health officials are working on behalf of producers and the livestock industry.
New research finds multiple effects on soil from exposure to manure from cows administered antibiotics.
CattleTrace is inviting all beef industry stakeholders to attend the first-ever CattleTrace Industry Symposium on November 22, 2019, in Manhattan, Kan.
In treating internal parasites in cattle, efficacy less than 100% eventually leads to at least some drug resistance.
Over the past 20 years or so, we’ve seen much of the U.S. cow herd shift toward black coats. Someday, perhaps the trend will become zebra stripes.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education this month approved a new undergraduate degree combining computer sciences and animal sciences at the University of Illinois.
Michigan State University and Michigan Department of Natural Resources scientists are testing a faster, more accurate way to screen and diagnosis chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in deer.
While genetic selection strategies around the world have improved livestock productivity and consistency, a lack of genetic diversity could put food production at risk.
Expanded conditional approval has the potential to incentivize drug development and provide veterinarians with legally marketed new animal drugs.
Health-related interactions among people, animals and the environment have a profound influence on disease risk, transmission and prediction efforts.
The proposal would bring remaining approved over-the-counter medically important antimicrobial drugs used for animals under veterinary oversight.
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