Animal health
The issue of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and other cervids continues to worry stakeholders including hunters, deer farmers and businesses that generate revenue from deer hunting and related activities.
Even in human health, use of dietary supplements requires somewhat of a leap of faith.
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) would like to remind Texas veterinarians to be vigilant and proactive as they observe and collect ticks on small and large animals.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is publishing a final environmental impact statement (EIS) that discusses how to continue to protect U.S. livestock from cattle fever ticks.
Student, advisers taking research from lab to marketplace.
The Anaplasma marginale pathogen presents diagnostic challenges in the field and in the laboratory.
Veterinarians can help clients integrate fly control into an overall herd-health program.
The simulation exercise, named Agriculture Response Management and Resources (ARMAR), will take place in the continental United States from 8 to 10 May 2018.
There are several opportunities to increase both feed efficiency and weight gain with creep feeds.
A $382,800 federal grant will fund research to identify the impacts of prenatal stress on beef cattle DNA, white blood cells, other tissue and subsequent changes in genetics related to temperament.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has authorized the movement of a modified, non-infectious version of the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) virus from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center to the U.S. mainland.
Protect against the devastating impact reproductive diseases can have on your operation’s success.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is revising its Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Program Standards to better meet the needs of both animal health officials and the cervid industry.
As cattle producers work to improve health while minimizing antibiotic use, research indicates that supplements influencing microflora in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can improve gut health and overall immunity.
With anaplasmosis appearing to become more prevalent in some areas, cow-calf producers need awareness of clinical signs, vectors and preventive measures against death loss and abortions in their herds.
Alltech will host a webinar on calf gut health and the importance of nutrition during those first weeks of the calf’s life, on Tuesday, March 27 at 2 PM EST.
While some cattlemen have already started weaning spring-calving herds, October and November are prime times for feeder cattle marketing decisions. What is your weaning strategy this year?
A new K-State publication provides vital information on plants that, if consumed, could harm cattle and other livestock.
This spring’s wicked storms are giving Arkansas ranchers two kinds of headaches: declining hay quality and increased concern for livestock health due debris and bacteria stirred by floodwater.
Although the disease known as grass tetany typically peters out by April, Arkansas cattle ranchers should keep an eye out for the disease well into the late spring months this year, due to heavy rains and cool temperature trends in the region.
At a point in history when a novel virus dominates the news cycle and impacts our lives daily, another novel virus has emerged in the United States – this time, in the cattle population.
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences team is working toward a vaccine that would be easier to deliver to livestock and wildlife.
As temperatures begin to increase, health officials in several states are warning livestock and pet owners to be aware of dangerous blue-green algae blooms.
It’s a silent challenge, yet costly to the beef cattle business: liver abscess disease.
Decisions made today will have an impact on a cow herd for years to come.
A treatment for sick cattle that almost always works….suddenly almost never works? It happens when bacteria find ways to defeat the antimicrobial.
While dairymen have used artificial insemination, or AI, profitably for decades, beef producers are starting to show more interest, and for good reasons.
Treating a sick calf may can be a challenge with all the regulations on shared-class antibiotics—unless you have a solid V-C-P-R.
Producers have made substantial progress in reducing the use of antibiotics and helping protect both human and livestock health through improved antibiotic stewardship.
You can’t look at a pen of feedyard cattle and know which ones have liver abscesses. Even technologies like ultrasound or blood tests don’t uncover it, but it costs the industry $60 million annually.