Animal Welfare
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.
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.
Dairymen should be cognizant of daily management practices that impact beef and dairy products reaching the public’s dinner plate.
State’s dairy industry supports Senate Bill 1337, which aims to protect Idaho’s farmers from groups intending to do harm to their businesses.
Grants up to $5,000 are available to farmers in the Animal Welfare Approved program.
Facility resumes operations a week after USDA closed it down amid video allegations of dairy cow abuse. Company still is suspended from supplying meat to federal food programs.
The American Veterinary Medical Association’s new video shows how to reduce pain for cattle during dehorning.
Robotic calf-feeding system provides flexibility, reduced labor, weight gain
This month’s news that four Colorado dairy cows have tested positive for bovine tuberculosis (TB) underscores the sobering fact that the disease remains a threat to U.S. cattle herds.
After more than a month since widespread flooding and blizzards devastated cattle producers in Nebraska and surrounding states an animal rights group is using the tragedy to push a vegan diet.
If fly season has not yet begun in your part of the country, it soon will.
Growth in popularity of natural, organic and “antibiotic free” labeling for meat and dairy products has provided options for consumers and opportunities for producers.
Raised-without-antibiotics (RWA) programs for cattle production have become increasingly popular. However, when an animal needs antibiotic treatment, they typically cannot stay in this type of marketing program.
Across livestock production, we’ve seen growing acceptance of the relationships between stress, disease and lost performance. We’re also operating in a time when consumer perceptions are evolving rapidly.
The new requirements take effect January 1, 2020.
Security experts share four tips to educate consumers and protect your farm from activists.
Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) is gearing up to release another video alleging animal abuse at an organic dairy in Texas.
Best practices from 25 pilot projects across the U.S., the European Union and Russia will be studied.
Activist groups sue Iowa over ag whistleblower law
Washington farmer charged with animal abuse gets cows back
A bill drawn up by Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage would make public the names of animal activists hired to film undercover footage of animal cruelty.
Dairy farmers currently face challenges that prior generations also had to overcome. However, today’s farmers are also facing new challenges. Increased pressure from consumers is not only impacting farmers, but processors, too.
An Ohio dairy barn fire lead to rescue effort of approximately 100 cows.
A non-inferiority trial, similar in methodology to the Cornell University study, found no differences in dry cow treatments.
Clean, dry, well-ventilated pens and adequate nutrition are crucial to coccidiosis prevention and control.
A poll done by Dairy Today finds a majority of producers don’t agree with NMPF’s tail docking ban.
Producers are finding health advantages to placing newborn calves in a warm environment where they can be quickly dried and cared for during their first few hours.
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The practice of tail docking is being questioned as a necessary practice on U.S. dairy farms.
Two Animal Handling Training programs – one in the Panhandle and one in Central Texas — will be presented in August by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.