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Diarrhea in neonatal calves is one of the leading causes of morbidity (sickness) and mortality (death) in North America and Europe and continues to be a major cause of economic loss to the beef cattle industry.

If you or an employee treats an animal with a drug, it’s important to keep adequate and updated treatment records.

Cash fed cattle prices moved higher last week with all packers participating. This week cattle feeders will look to keep the momentum going.

U.S. tractor maker Deere & Co agreed on a new six-year contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union that would be subject to a vote by the company’s striking workers, the company said in a statement on Saturday.

Cash fed cattle prices finally broke out of a weeks-long rut, trading $2 to $4 higher in all regions. This week saw the highest prices of the year and the highest average since 2019.

Skilled researchers are needed to conduct studies in the highly secure containment system at NBAF to ensure both safety and competence in the work being performed.

“I have a sense of certainty that she knew, as that day was the first cold morning of fall, that she had lived out the last of her summers. A chapter in our history closed on that hill on that perfect fall afternoon.”

Winter hay feeding is a reality for most producers and some use high quality hays such as alfalfa for supplementation. In both instances, a forage analysis is essential to cost effective and efficient use of the hay.

To identify unique proteins that can be used for interventions against BRD, scientists took a closer look at the genetic material of multiple strains of three groups of bacteria commonly implicated with the disease.