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The National Cattlemen’s Foundation is now accepting applications for the W.D. Farr Scholarships for the 2019-20 school year.
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.
The United States will nearly triple its annual duty-free beef exports to the European Union (EU) over the next seven years under a new trade agreement signed at the White House.
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.
Alberta-based consulting group draws on data and a diverse team to provide integrated services to producers.
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.
Animal-health officials suspect the Asian longhorned tick could be transmitting a foreign animal disease in Virginia.
China is the major global buyer of cattle hides and demand in China is hampered by tariffs and trade disruptions and by stronger environmental regulations impacting small tanneries.
Cows and heifers that gestate in hot weather will often calve a few days earlier than expected.
Zoetis and Colorado State University have signed an agreement to establish a research lab that will explore the livestock immune system and target new immunotherapies.
Cattle feeders’ perseverance paid dividends as they held out for steady to higher cash trade in all feeding regions.
Beyond Meat reported its second-quarter earnings on Monday, and traders called the news mixed.
Taco Bell says it plans to reduce antibiotics in its global beef supply 25% by 2025, a change it says will affect 9.8 million daily orders.
Providing shade and cool water, and only feeding or working cattle in the cool of the day can prevent solar radiation and the damaging effects from an elevated heat load.
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.
An effort to return grizzly bears to North Cascades National Park is back in motion after officials announced public comment will be reopened.
If reproductive efficiencies seem to be slipping, the underlying cause may be the result of leptospirosis
USDA’s first estimate of the annual calf crop, released in its mid-year inventory report, may be the most important survey number for cattle producers, says John Nalivka.
Monsoon rain storms have become more intense in the southwestern United States in recent decades, according to a study recently published by Agricultural Research Service scientists.
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.
Cargill launches “BeefUp Sustainability,” an initiative committed to achieving a 30% greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity reduction across its North American beef supply chain by 2030.
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.
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas reported new premises infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) over the past week.
Last week’s trade was the greatest disappointment of the last few months of downward trends in the cash cattle market.
USDA’s mid-year inventory totals suggest that the U.S. cattle herd has reached a plateau. I contrast a plateau with a more typical cyclical peak inventory that historically has implied a liquidation phase to follow.
Skin tests that can distinguish between cattle that are infected with tuberculosis (TB) and those that have been vaccinated against the disease have been created by an international team of scientists.
4-H prep should be an Olympic sport. Or at least it felt that way as Miranda Reiman helped her older kids get ready for entry day at the county fair.
With the global market size of agritourism expected to reach $10.16 billion by 2024, the new certificate provides the foundation for creating and operating tourism enterprises.
A U.S. District Judge has granted a partial preliminary injunction, approving an alternative grazing plan for the Hammond’s cattle that the Bureau of Land Management had proposed in June.