NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

Letter Dear Secretary Vilsack, We appreciate the ongoing efforts of your agency to respond to the outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle, especially the opportunity to regularly meet with you and your team to share information and concerns. We implore the agency to release guidance and financial support to dairy cattle auction barns and markets.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Linda Coffey, Margo Hale, and Dave Scott, NCAT Livestock Specialists With many parts of the country currently experiencing bitter temperatures, we’re re-posting this blog from March 2021 to offer potential livestock watering strategies for your farm during severe cold snaps. Her farm includes cattle, goats, poultry, and hogs.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Recent discoveries of avian flu in poultry, cattle and swine prompt USDA to step up testing, public awareness.

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Farmbrite

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Livestock health and wellness can directly impact the productivity, yields, product quality, and overall safety of livestock and the community served by your farm. 6 Key Livestock Wellness Management Practices Measure & monitor the overall wellness of your herd/flock/etc. safe and well.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Passage of the bill will also help each state address its needs for public practice veterinarians (food safety, public health, epidemiology, pathology, molecular diagnostics, virology, toxicology, immunology, bacteriology, serology, foreign animal disease preparedness, and livestock infectious diseases).

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AgriLife Today

JULY 26, 2023

69th annual Beef Cattle Short Course set for Aug. 7-9 in Bryan-College Station Looking back at 40 years of advances in the beef industry and toward the next 40 years of opportunities and challenges will be the highlight of the general session during the 69th annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in Bryan-College Station set for.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On the heels of the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, U.S. Senators Randy Feenstra (R-IA) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) have introduced legislation to spur further research into livestock consolidation. The Livestock Consolidation Research Act would direct USDA to study the impact of consolidation on farmers and producers.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – At today’s National Association of State Departments of Agriculture 2024 Annual Meeting , the Animal Agriculture Policy Committee hosted a panel focusing on recent outbreaks of H5 influenza in poultry and dairy populations and its impacts on “secure” plans for the livestock sector.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster Avian Flu Spreads to Cattle. A highly pathogenic strain of the avian flu, known as H5N1, has spread to 16 cattle herds across six states. since late 2021—has spread to cattle, according to the Center for Disease Control.

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Farmbrite

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Running a livestock operation? Whether it's a cattle ranch, a dairy goat farm, a chicken poultry business, or anything in between, can be a complex and demanding task. This all-in-one platform is designed to help you efficiently manage every facet of your livestock business, regardless of the types of animals you raise.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 21, 2024

While cultivated meat may hold promise for producing more humane and socially sustainable protein, it may also help solve some of the negative environmental impacts of industrial livestock production. And according to a report on human appropriation of land and food, poultry has a feed efficiency rate of 13 percent, pork 8.8

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

Dozens of countries have already approved these feed ingredients and those farmers and ranchers are safely using these products, yielding results that improve animal production and well-being, diminish pre-harvest food safety concerns, and boost sustainability opportunities for dairy, livestock and poultry farmers. Kalmbach Feeds Inc.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Examples of these investments are the Meat and Poultry Programs (MP programs), such as the Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG), Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) and Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which have helped smaller plants scale up or prepare themselves for federal inspection utilizing different sized grants and loans.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, ORG supports the development of fish meal in lieu of synthetic methionine supplements in poultry feed and the use of biological controls instead of streptomycin to manage fire blight in organic apple and pear production. These include: Livestock and poultry breed development for organic systems.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. If we’re really serious about forestalling famine, we need to stop feeding so much grain to livestock, and save the wheat, corn, and rice we grow for human consumption.

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ATTRA

JUNE 4, 2024

USDA proposed a rule , “Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems,” to address abuses that have occurred in grower-ranking payment systems and additional capital investment requirements that poultry companies commonly ask of their contract growers.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Replacement cattle, grazing and rangeland management among topics The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Beef Cattle Conference for Nolan and Fisher counties will be held Sept. Read More → The post Beef cattle conference to be held Sept. The post Beef cattle conference to be held Sept. 19 in Rotan.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Canadian farm groups have voiced major concerns regarding a private member’s bill that has quietly reached the second reading stage in the Senate. Bill C-293, introduced in 2022 by Liberal MP and noted vegan, Nate Erskine-Smith, is one of many private member’s bills that have gained traction under the Liberal minority government.

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Trimble Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Livestock and Poultry: +17.9% Dairy, chicken eggs, and poultry are down due to low prices. However, cattle and calves are expected to see an increase this year, thanks to low volume driving higher prices. Overall, production costs are predicted to increase by 6.9 percent in 2023 after accounting for inflation.

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

poultry team. Keith Fleetwood has joined the company as a poultry account manager and feed mill specialist. In that role, he will provide support related to specialty ingredient, nutrition and premix sales for the company’s commercial poultry customers. Alltech announced two additions to its U.S.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

They grow one thing, till underneath to suppress vegetation, have no soil cover, and use no livestock. He adopted my pastured poultry ideas in his citrus grove years ago and it set in motion a cascade of benefits. The gospel of pastured livestock is not just a warm fuzzy notion espoused by nuts like me for giggles and kicks.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

(Photo courtesy of Roots of Change) The term, a general reference to pasture management that prioritizes soil health and perennial plants by grazing livestock through rotated paddocks, encompasses a set of practices that advocates say results in healthier animals and pastures. Currently, the vast majority of U.S. herding around 50 heads.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The private member’s bill that aims to reduce the risk of biosecurity breaches from trespassers on farms has received final approval in the House of Commons. Bill C-275, brought forward by Conservative shadow minister for agriculture John Barlow, would update the Health of Animals Act to make it an offence to enter a place where. Read More

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Agwired

JULY 24, 2023

million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of July 1, 2023, according to the Cattle report published by the U.S. After a yearlong search, Purdue Animal Sciences has selected Hattie Duncan to lead its livestock judging team as well as the department’s newly formed livestock judging program. There were 95.9

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. Growth of the market—and the cattle—was slow. million cattle.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

For livestock producers, lower prices for corn and soybeans reduce feed costs, offsetting price and demand challenges. Hog, poultry and milk prices all declined in 2023 as demand weakened. Projected hog prices are similar in 2024 as in 2023, while small declines are expected for poultry and milk prices. •

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Agwired

JUNE 3, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) celebrated the 100-year anniversary of Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory and its past and present contributions to the livestock industry and scientific community. Poultry industry professionals from around the country recently met in Nashville, Tenn.,

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The campaign, Raised with Respect , centers on the common ground found between cattle producers and beef consumers, with a focus on animal welfare and beef sustainability. Their work will create livestock feed additives to reduce the amount of methane produced during the digestive process. Poultry & Egg Association ’s Harold E.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2024

an animal health company improving success rates of embryo transfer (ET) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) for cattle producers, announces open enrollment for EmVision. Join the Livestock Publications Council for the January Coffee and Collaboration on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 10 a.m. EmGenisys, Inc. ,

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Livestock Publications Council (LPC) annually inducts one of its distinguished leaders into the Hall of Fame. USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Air Quality Task Force (AAQTF).

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Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

Department of Agriculture has extended the 60-day comment period for their latest Packers and Stockyards proposed rule, “Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets,” by 15 days to Sept. Animal challenge studies completed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) study found zero Trichinella positives in more than 3.2

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

PSB Industries , a specialist in the design and fabrication of systems for dehydrating and purifying gasses and liquids, highlights the reliability and efficiency of its Deoxo and TSA Dryer Package for the livestock sector. iGENDEC is an advanced software tool designed to help cattle producers understand and improve their herd’s genetics.

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Trimble Agriculture

JUNE 7, 2023

The commodities that are expected to have the largest effect on these numbers are horticulture, livestock, dairy, and poultry. Corn, wheat, livestock, poultry, and dairy contribute the most to this decline. This decrease is primarily driven by horticulture, livestock, dairy, and poultry. billion to $40.5

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Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification is an easy and effective way to pursue continued education in the cattle business. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) announced that nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. western rangelands.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Jacob, a first-generation farmer, is thankful for the support of his parents and credits his involvement showing cattle in 4-H as a teenager for his career in farming and conservation. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements. Every species is different, and he’ll address cattle, hogs, and poultry transport and movement. I’ll do a presentation on landscape design.

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Agwired

MARCH 18, 2024

Cattle raisers impacted by wildfires in the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma can apply for financial aid through the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) Disaster Relief Fund.

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