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As human resistance to antibiotics grows, you pay the price.

Steve and Karen Sponem have been dairyfarmers most of their adult lives, so they learned a long time ago how to live through the radical ups and downs of milk prices. Earlier this year, and despite the struggling global economy, dairy industry experts were giddy when prices improved to almost $21. Steve Sponem said that was the highest he has ever seen.

A trip to the grocery store is going to cost more next year, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

While there’s a world of growing opportunity out there, the U.S. dairy industry seems content to let it slip away.

Implementing Johne’s control measures must become a part of daily routine, and followed year after year.

En una granja lechera todos los días hay que tomar múltiples decisiones respecto a lo que comerán las vacas, cuanto comerán, cuales vacas comerán determinado alimento y como se les va a mezclar y presentar el alimento a las mismas.

The 1.779 million cows reported in October gets the state back to where it was five years ago, when California reported 1.778 million cows.

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.