The number of Montana cattle deaths compensated for in 2018 by the LIP exceeded 37,000, a total four times the amount paid out over the previous four years combined.
California’s Cattle Council will soon begin funding programs designed to help consumers understand the positive role cattle and beef production play in the environment, and other issues.
As an advocate of science, Frank Mitloehner believes efforts to reduce meat and milk production globally will only result in “more hunger in poor countries.”
The U.S. annual Cattle Inventory report found 94.8 million head on farms and ranches, up slightly from last year. The calf crop from 2018 totaled 36.4 million head, up 2%.
An atypical case of BSE was detected in a six year-old Florida beef cow, but never entered the slaughter channels and poses no threat to the U.S. food supply.
