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Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame inducts Nebraska native and Texas entrepreneur Don Oppliger.

Part 8: Consumer Perceptions

Part 7: Animal Welfare

Part 6: Labor

Part 5: Industry Structure

Part 4: Antibiotic Stewardship

Part 3: Animal genetics

Part 2: Medical Technology

Part 1: Client Services and Communications

Researchers Identify Genomic Markers for Risk of Bovine Congestive Heart Failure

Production Animal Consultation (PAC) Veterinarians Aim to Fine-Tune Beef-Cattle Management from Birth to Slaughter.

This week, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) released its 2016-2017 NARMS Integrated Summary.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a mosquito-borne virus, most years presents a serious disease challenge to horses and other equines during the summer and fall months.

Metaphylaxis remains a cost-effective tool for managing high-risk arrivals, but refinements could reduce the number of antibiotic treatments.

Metaphylaxis remains a cost-effective tool for managing high-risk arrivals, but refinements could reduce the number of antibiotic treatments.

Hospital pens play a key role in helping animals recover from sickness, and also in preventing the spread of disease to other cattle in a feedlot.

This year’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) hasn’t died out yet, but has tapered off significantly as fall weather freezes out the insect vectors associated with the disease.

You can help delay drug resistance in parasites, as more complex strategies create need for veterinarian oversight.

If a vaccine isn’t preventing disease, perhaps the money would be better spent on adding real value to calves.

Cow-calf producers know that a dam’s body condition during late gestation and through early lactation has long-term and economically significant impacts on cow and calf performance.

​​​​​​​Grazing on harvested corn fields provides a fall and winter management option for cattle owners and an income opportunity for landowners.

According to an analysis published in the journal Science, antibiotic resistance among bacteria affecting food animals has nearly tripled over the past 20 years.

For many years, the biggest questions producers faced in controlling internal parasites related to timing.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture has confirmed diagnosis of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) in four cows in eastern Washington.

When loads of stressed, high-risk calves arrive at the feedlot, it often makes economic sense to treat them all with antibiotics to prevent an almost-inevitable outbreak of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

Cattle feeders first began using mass treatments for newly arrived calves back in the 1970s, as a means of controlling outbreaks of respiratory disease or “shipping fever.”

Numerous controlled and blinded trials have shown that in high-risk calves arriving at feedlots or stocker operations, mass treatment with an antibiotic significantly reduces BRD sick pulls and mortality.

​​​​​​​We’ve all seen the headlines over the years, and some very recent, about professional dissatisfaction and burnout among veterinarians.

Research and practical experience have shown a genetic component to the ability of individual cattle, or sire lines, to resist BRD pathogens.

This summer’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) appears to be losing steam, with no new states reporting positive cases in the USDA’s latest weekly situation report.

Zoonotic diseases could pose a risk to animals, producers, public health and livestock markets.

We need to better address all three components of the disease triad.

While researchers and the industry work to develop systems to better prevent BRD, timely treatments with antibiotics will remain a critical tool for minimizing losses associated with morbidity.

Assessing the risk of cattle needing treatment for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) requires consideration of far more than exposure to patahogens.

So far this summer, the USDA has confirmed vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) on premises in six states.

While the cattle industry continues to refine preventive measures, treatments and overall management, feedlot morbidity, mortality and costs associated with bovine respiratory disease (BRD) stubbornly refuse to improve.

Merck has refined the Whisper system to serve as a decision tool for managing new arrivals.

Veterinarians and livestock producers have adapted to significant changes in antimicrobial regulations, and change will continue as the FDA works through its five-year plan for antimicrobial stewardship.

This summer’s outbreak has mostly affected equines, with just two cattle operations reporting the disease so far.

APHIS’ Wildlife Services and its cooperators will begin distributing baits on or about August 2 across rural areas by airplanes and in suburban or urban areas by helicopters, vehicles and bait stations.

Alberta-based consulting group draws on data and a diverse team to provide integrated services to producers.

If a vaccine isn’t preventing disease, perhaps the money would be better spent on adding real value to calves.

This summer’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) has mostly affected horses, but continues to spread across state lines and to new premises within states with previous cases.

Animal-health officials suspect the Asian longhorned tick could be transmitting a foreign animal disease in Virginia.

As the summer progresses, insect-borne vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) appeared in Wyoming for the first time this year and spread to new premises in Texas.

In a release earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Monovet 90, the first generic monensin product for use in cattle and goats.

Cases of anthrax continue to appear in Texas livestock, but so far, the outbreak this summer has mostly remained confined to an area with a history of anthrax.

The well-regarded Stockmanship and Stewardship training programs continue this summer, with the next event scheduled for August 9 and 10 in Fort Collins Colorado.

Colorado, New Mexico and Texas reported new premises infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) over the past week.

The USDA’s ORV program is designed to control rabies in wildlife such as raccoons and skunks.