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Pennsylvania State University researchers are experimenting with sophisticated diets to reduce harmful pollutants that emerge from, ahem, both ends of the cow.

Expo cattle shows stream over the Internet and to remote sites.

The National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council expressed great disappointment at today’s announcement by the Mexican government that it would impose tariffs of 20% to 25% on several major categories of U.S. exports to Mexico, including many cheeses.

Cydectin, marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim, announced this week it became the livestock industry’s first sponsor of Wounded Warrior Project.

Dairy farmers sent 42,000 fewer cull cows to slaughter in June than they did a year ago, a 16% reduction in culling

Cooperatives Working Together will now include butter and anhydrous milkfat as products eligible for export assistance.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has are received a letter signed by 75 Members of Congress urging USDA to allow limited planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa.

“Is competition healthy enough to protect farmers, and if not, what do we do about it?” Sen. Herb Kohl’s question at the USDA–Department of Justice hearing on dairy industry consolidation sums up a never-ending debate.

Changes to the cattle passport rules were urged yesterday to make the offspring of cloned cattle more readily identifiable to farmers and meat processors.The National Beef Association (NBA) made the demand for clearer information on the passports that accompany all cattle from birth to slaughter.

Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted three bids from Dairy Farmers of America and three bids from Land O’Lakes for a total of 644 metric tons (1.4 million pounds) of butter and anhydrous milkfat (AMF) to Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America.