Diseases You Can Catch From Animals
Dr. Ken McMillan
DTN
Zoonotic diseases are those ailments that can actually pass from animals to humans. Is BVD one of these type diseases?
QUESTION: Can BVD cause disease in people?
Diseases You Can Catch From Animals
Dr. Ken McMillan
DTN
Zoonotic diseases are those ailments that can actually pass from animals to humans. Is BVD one of these type diseases?
QUESTION: Can BVD cause disease in people?
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Summer can stress out pastures
Eddie Baggs
Denton Record Chronicle
It’s getting hot and dry again. After some rains this spring, we are really beginning to dry out, and pasture grasses are starting to get short with slow regrowth. This will have some affect on livestock feeding and grazing management systems.
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Useful tools for genetic selection
Troy Smith
The Cattle Business Weekly
Iowa-based seedstock and commercial cattle producer Steve Radakovich voiced his thoughts on genetic improvement and its impact on producer profitability at the recent Beef Improvement Federation symposium.
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Heat Stress Already a Concern
Dan Goehl, DVM
Beef Today
In some areas, summertime arrived early as many are already dealing with high heat and humidity. Animals, cattle included, have difficulty regulating their body temperature during extreme heat. There are some common sense things we can do to help them manage this problem.
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Cattle and Concert to Headline South Poll Field Day
Cattle Today
The third South Poll Grass Cattle Association annual meeting and field day will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25, at Bent Tree Farms, the home of Teddy and Linda Gentry and also the home of the South Poll breed, on Lookout Mountain near Fort Payne, Alabama.
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Spending measure puts ‘GIPSA Rule’ on hold
TSCRA
Livestock and poultry organizations today praised House lawmakers for approving an agriculture funding bill that prevents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from finalizing its proposed regulation on livestock and poultry marketing contracts.
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BeefTalk: Homesick
Kris Ringwall, Beef Specialist, NDSU Extension Service
The world is very interesting because what we thought was the world seems to have the ability to change. The change may be dramatic or more subtle, but it does change
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Time To Put Wheels Under the Herd
Victoria G. Myers
Progressive Farmer
More than half of the nation’s cow herd is struggling to survive through a drought that continues to spread across the Southern Plains, and now the Southeast.
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Pasture management is key to good farming
Jeff Semeler
Herald Mail
Agriculture is defined by Webster as the science, art or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops and raising livestock.
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Louisiana cattle producers vote to continue checkoff
Rick Bogren
Delta Farm Press
Louisiana beef producers overwhelmingly voted to continue a 50-cents-per-head assessment on all cattle marketed in Louisiana for the next five years, according to LSU AgCenter officials.
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