While it's still fresh in your mind, now is the time to make changes to your farm or ranch record keeping system. There are many programs available to help you organize your financial information.
In planning responses to emerging animal diseases, animal-health officials must account for a variety of unknowns, and design adaptable strategies for an appropriate response, depending on specific pathogens involved, v
NASS reports in the 2017 Census of Agriculture that 36% of U.S. farms have beef cows, with the average herd size 43.5 head. Smaller operations, however, are declining.
The first case of mad cow disease in France in over a decade is making it more likely that some importers will ban beef from Europe’s largest producer.