…a highly contagious viral foreign animal disease that affects domestic livestock – including cattle, swine, sheep, goats, and domestic cervids – with reduced milk and meat productivity, illness, and death….
The Western View: Parkfield Bluegrass
…raised on the V6 ranch nearby, and a log cabin lodge with a dozen or so rooms. The town has 18 residents, not counting horses and cattle, but it grows…
Groups on House Agriculture Committee Approving 2018 Farm Bill
…the United States of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in livestock. FMD is an infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, pigs and sheep; it is not a food safety or…
Agri View: Kentucky Cattle
Everett Griner talks about Kentucky cattle in today’s Agri View. Everett looks at the cattle production in Kentucky compared to the United States and other southern states. You know, there…
Groups React to Farm Bill Proposal
…farm economy and the thousands of jobs that are supported by America’s agricultural productivity.” National Cattlemen’s Beef Association National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Kevin Kester today issued the following statement…
USDA Proposes to Update Branding Requirements for Cattle from Mexico
…shoulder. Feeder cattle would continue to be branded on the back hip. The proposed rule would still allow an MX ear tattoo option for breeding cattle, instead of a brand,…
GOA Issues Report on Cattle Markets
…cattle—those ready for slaughter from 2013 through 2016. The price of fed cattle has fluctuated widely from 2013 through 2016 and experienced a sharp downturn beginning in late 2015, raising…
Agri View: Cattle Trade
Everett Griner talks about why dropping out of TPP is not good for cattle trade in today’s Agri View. I don’t know if it is to late for us to…
Marfrig Becomes World’s 2nd Largest Beef Processor
…beef markets in the world, we will reach extremely sophisticated consumer countries and we can grow by maintaining strict financial discipline.” The company’s slaughter capacity will total 8.3 million cattle…
New Trap Better at Snaring Stable Flies
…dairy cows, decreasing weight gain in beef cattle and lowering feed efficiency. Insecticide treatments are used to help keep stable flies off animals, but treatments wash off as cattle walk…
USDA Highlights Feedback from Stakeholders in Review of Livestock Mandatory Reporting Program
…“From the small producer looking to market a few head of cattle to the large packer managing risk exposure, LMR provides critical market intelligence,” said Greg Ibach, Under Secretary for…
USDA Reopens Enrollment for Improved Dairy Safety Net Tool
…can participate in FSA’s MPP-Dairy or the Risk Management Agency’s Livestock Gross Margin Insurance Plan for Dairy Cattle (LGM-Dairy), but not both. During the 2018 enrollment period, only producers with…
Livestock Waiver for ELD Mandate Extended with Omnibus Bill
…Cattlemen’s Association and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association were in support of the spending bill due to the livestock waiver as well as other language in the bill. As with…
Agri View: Elimination of Slaughterhouses
…these protesters are meat consumers themselves. Can’t you see what they are trying to do? The millions of cattle, hogs, and chickens, would have to stay in the pastures, pens,…