Cooperative Extension personnel are working to compile a comprehensive list of ranchers who do targeted grazing. Livestock and Range Management Advisor in Sonoma County, Stephanie Larson has been reaching out…
An ARS Focus on the Northern Plains: Finding New Ways to Beef Up Our Cattle
…was consistent across the years and that by the end of the grazing season, individual cattle would weigh about 30 pounds, or 12 percent, less. Trying to induce cattle to…
Central Valley Dairy Biogas Facility to be Largest in U.S.
…reduce more than 50 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. A California law passed in 2016 requires that methane emissions levels from livestock be reduced by 40 percent from 2013…
Farmers Prevented from Planting Crops on More than 19 Million Acres
…time in 2017. To help make cover crops a more viable option, USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) adjusted the haying and grazing date of cover crops, and USDA’s Natural Resources…
Plan to Use Farm Bill Funding to Support Animal Disease Prevention and Management
…programs will work together to protect and improve the health of our nation’s livestock, helping farmers and ranchers provide high-quality agricultural products to consumers here and abroad. For our highest…
China Suspends Purchases of American Agricultural Products
…from several other countries, heightening concerns about the long-term viability of the Chinese market once the tariff situation is resolved. With both crop and livestock markets taking substantial hits once…
Trade, Consumer Demand, Impending Corn Crop Among Critical Issues for U.S. Cattle Industry
…Washington, D.C. and across the country beginning in January of 2020. These include livestock marketing; federal lands; agriculture and food policy; cattle health and well-being; property rights and environmental management…
USDA Announces Details of Support Package for Farmers
…29, 2019, when signup begins at local FSA offices. Per-acre non-specialty crop county payment rates, specialty crop payment rates, and livestock payment rates are all currently available on farmers.gov. MFP payments…
Guest-Worker Reforms Essential as Enforcement Increases
…improved and more affordable H-2A guest-worker program. Currently, farmers with year-round worker needs, such as dairy and livestock, are unable to use the program and that’s not right. An adequate…
Huge October Livestock Summit In France Releases Program Update
Our AgNet Media friends in Clermont-Ferrand, France, just released the updated program for their upcoming Sommet De L’Elevage (Livestock Summit), which is one of, if not the biggest of its…
Pork Industry Battling Challenges From Trade to Labor Shortage
…ultimately consumers, National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President David Herring, a pork producer from Lillington, N.C., testified before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. “One of the…
Methane Reduction Funding Down but Not Out
…process may have become more competitive with less overall funding available, incentive opportunities remain to help dairies achieve the necessary reductions. “Livestock agriculture has received $99 million in each of…
Last Minute Push to Revive COOL in USMCA
…and Canada has previously voiced opposition to the idea. The two countries argued against the original law, saying the labeling discouraged American meatpackers from purchasing their livestock and created an…
The Western View: Buffalo Bill Center Covers the West
…The road to Yellowstone follows that river up into the sky, past grazing herds of elk and wandering buffalo, between spectacular mountain ranges that are home to mountain goats and…