…beef industry’s request is based on a 1998 WTO ruling in the EU beef dispute that the European ban on the import of meat and meat products from animals treated…
More Garden Gift Ideas
…gifts for gardeners are bird baths, bird seed, feeders, and here again they can be functional they can be decorative, also things that will help butterflies and other animals and…
Proposed Organic Livestock Farm Rules Not Guaranteed
…High Plains Public Radio website says the proposed rules would clarify current rules and create new standards of care for animals on organic livestock farms. The rules would focus in…
New Test Quickly Detects Red Imported Fire Ants
…and repair damage. Also, these ants inflict a venomous sting that’s potentially life-threatening to humans and small animals. The new test was developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal…
Panera Makes Animal Welfare Pledge for Broilers
…says promotes effective animal livestock care. The Standard requires no cages or crowding crates be used on animal farms. It also requires outdoor access for animals, as well as pasture…
Christmas Dogs
…Land of Ours. Christmas Dogs Each year an Idaho Christmas tree grower helps out a local charity and some homeless animals by letting his farm go to the dogs. Tom…
Canada Releases Six Ranches Under Quarantine for Bovine TB
…of the six TB-positive animals found so far in the investigation. Animals now considered part of that “herd” includes those which commingled with TB-infected animals on community pastures. An estimated…
AFBF Pres. Duvall Comments on Nomination of Ryan Zinke to Interior
…before him. Farmers and ranchers have suffered abuse at the hands of the Interior Department. Arbitrary limits on grazing have harmed animal agriculture. Wild horses and burros have overgrazed and…
Agri View: Turkey History
…to their holiday turkey dinner and enjoyed a bird that was not raised on a poultry farm. Turkeys are one of the most hunted animals in the whole wild kingdom….
Funding for Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
…evaluations about the environmental effects of genetically engineered (GE) organisms including plants, animals, insects and microorganisms. This funding is made available through NIFA’s Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants (BRAG) Program….
Canada Increases Bovine TB Quarantine
…cattle may have been exposed to bovine TB. All the infected animals and animals exposed to TB have been or are due to be destroyed, and all farms now under…
USDA Surveying Sheep Operations
…for sheep and lambs pertain to animals on the total acres operated, regardless of ownership except for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In…
World Soil Day: Celebrating the Magic Beneath
…Soil supports our houses, roads, crops and our very lives. It silently churns microbial magic, turning carbon sources like old plants and animals into the nutrients needed to support new…
Agri View: Hard Work
…But then there is a herd of animals that have to be taken care of. Cows have to be milked twice a day. And nothing produced on the farm is…