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Pulmotil is approved for the control of BRD associated with Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida and Histophilus somni in groups of beef and nonlactating dairy cattle.

President Obama last month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering was backfiring.The domestic ban didn’t end horse slaughter but instead shifted the site of butchery to Mexico and Canada - which meant increased abuse or neglect as the horses were shipped out of the country and beyond the reach of U.S. law.The ban had been imposed in 2006 when Congress defunded the government’s ability to inspect plants that butchered horses for consumption. Without inspections, the meat couldn’t be sold, and the industry withered.

It’s the first time since the award’s inception in 1989 that a “non-advertising” campaign entry has won.

The shock waves from the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc. are hitting hard across rural America, where farmers, ranchers and agricultural business owners are nervously waiting to learn how much money they’ve lost.

The $7.5 million investment is projected to increase cheese production at two of its plants by 3.6 million pounds per year.

“Right now, we are in a sweet spot where we have stronger global dairy prices and we have the milk supply to meet that demand.” Marc Beck, US Dairy Export Council

The town of Seymour, Iowa, has lost one-third of its population over the past three decades, and John Flood, who manages a local grain elevator, figures that one of the causes was a federal program that took large swaths of Wayne County cropland out of production. “You had all that land idled and no one doing anything with it,” he said.

Farm income will jump 28 percent this year to a record $100.9 billion because of higher crop and livestock prices, the government said.

U.S. dairy farms will have until May 1 to come into compliance.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin a “nonregulatory milk double-blinded sampling survey” of milk samples of herds that have a history of antibiotic residues in meat.