The livestock industry needs a comprehensive, cohesive plan to address the virus. Producers, their employees and veterinarians need clear answers and support from U.S. agricultural leadership, moving forward.
With hot summer weather ahead dairy producers need to understand the importance of managing dairy cattle to minimize the negative impacts of heat stress.
The inaugural episode features Dr. Dörte Döpfer, University of Wisconsin – School of Veterinary Medicine, one of the world’s most recognized experts on digital dermatitis.
Handling livestock can sometimes be stressful for both people and the animals. A lot depends on our attitude, methods, and our understanding of how an animal behaves.
A coalition of animal activists, civil rights groups and media organizations sued Idaho on Monday over a new law that makes it illegal to secretly film animal abuse at agricultural facilities.
La Administración de Alimentos y Drogas requiere que todas las fincas que utilicen un antibiótico con prescripción cuenten con una relación veterinario/paciente/cliente válida y con protocolos escritos de tratamientos.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to send to full House debate a bill that would block activists from secretly filming agricultural operations in hopes of capturing abuse on camera.
Veterinarians and animal health representatives from across Texas recently gathered at Texas A&M University’s O.D. Butler Jr. Animal Science Complex in College Station to discuss issues involving show animals and exhibitors.
BIVI will pick up the $25-$50 certification fee for beef or dairy producers who are interested in becoming certified or recertified under the Beef Quality Assurance program.
Dairy farmers enraged by animal-rights activists who spy on them in a bid to document abuse got a boost Friday when Idaho senators voted 23-10 to intensify punishments for those who film their operations without permission.
For a second year, your checkoff-funded Beef Quality Assurance program is giving you the chance to become certified for free thanks to a partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. and the Beef Cattle Institute housed at Kansas State University.
Dairies and other agricultural producers told Idaho state senators to back a bill aiming to prohibit animal activists from spying on their operations after activists documented animal cruelty in 2012 at a big southern Idaho dairy.
The role of livestock antibiotics in contributing to resistant bacterial infections in humans is complex and has been long-debated. But what does it actually mean for producers?
Near-record lows and bitter wind chills have taken over much of the U.S. and livestock producers can take precautions to ensure the safety of lactating animals.
The winter of 2013/2014 has been one of the coldest winters on record for quite a while and has definitely presented challenges for dairy producers and heifer growers as they try to keep calves alive and growing adequately in frigid temperatures.
"Dairy farming is not for the weak-hearted. You dairy farm because you love to dairy farm; you don't dairy farm because you want to get rich," says Minnesota dairy farmer Karen Naatz.
El informe del último mes de la agencia de noticias ABC acerca de otro abuso de animales en una finca lechera grande, en este caso en Wisconsin, ofrece duras lecciones para todos.
