…could capture images of suspicious vehicles and license plates. Monitor websites where buying and selling take place. Attend auction yards to view animals being sold. If your animals appear to…
USDA Provides Information for Producers and Veterinarians to Help Guard Against ASF
…and plans should be evaluated to ensure strict procedures designed to keep animals healthy are being followed at all times.” USDA accredited veterinarians can review and assess biosecurity plans if…
Deadline Approaches for NRCS Conservation Easement Applications
…restore and protect wetlands on flood-prone cropland and rangeland. Options for the program include permanent and 30-year easements. Also included under the WRE program is the Grazing Reserve Rights option…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 03-15-19
…2019 Leaders Conference in Sacramento, research that shows strong species richness with post-fire grazing and how the newly proposed Blue Card Bill is a step in a direction. Also, you’ll…
Study Clarifies U.S. Beef’s Resource Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
…growing the animals and include the impact of producing feed and other inputs. This is further complicated by the diversity of ways that beef cattle are managed and fed,” commented…
USDA Strengthens Partnerships and Protections to Keep ASF Out of the Country
…(wild) pigs in all age groups. It is spread by contact with the body fluids of infected animals. It can also be spread by ticks that feed on infected animals….
Study Reveals Pigs Can Transmit FMD Prior to Signs of Sickness
…euthanasia of a huge number of affected animals. Vaccine protection of pigs is notoriously challenging. Vaccinated pigs still shed infectious virus and potentially transmit infection, according to Arzt, who works…
Keeping the Carbon Footprint of Livestock in Perspective
…dairy cows, however that is rarely a point of discussion when addressing environmental impacts of animals. “What I also find very interesting, that all these people tooting the impacts of…
Broccoli Byproducts Showing Benefits as Poultry Feed Additive
…this project is exciting to me because you take this product, feed it to these animals, get a byproduct and then hopefully see how that byproduct can be helpful to…
Cattlemen React to Senate Passage of Public Lands Package
…prioritize recreation over other multiples uses of federal land. Our focus remains on ensuring rural communities that depend on grazing do not pay the price.” Source: National Cattlemen’s Beef Association…
Rangeland Summit Highlights Role of Livestock in Wildfire Suppression
…and letting them eat. There is a strategy to be considered when considering grazing animals on rangeland. Snell noted that “we are talking about managed grazing. So, this is managed…
NCBA Announces 2019 Policy Priorities
…of the U.S. rule, exempting livestock producers from EPCRA air emissions reporting requirements, modernizing and streamlining the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and federal grazing regulations, and promoting…
Helping Producers Aid Monarch Butterfly
…the ground to sustain the remaining butterflies, and milkweeds to feed their caterpillars.” While many of the conservation practices that NRCS recommends may target improving grazing lands or reducing soil…
Meat Inspectors, Price Reporting Staff Still On The Job
…livestock producers unable to market their animals to grocery stores unable to stock the meat case. Also continuing to operate during the shutdown are USDA Market News Service staff who…