Merck Suspends Sales of Cattle Feed Additive
ABC
Merck is suspending sales of its cattle feed additive Zilmax in the U.S. and Canada while it studies a possible link between Zilmax and lameness in cattle.
Merck Suspends Sales of Cattle Feed Additive
ABC
Merck is suspending sales of its cattle feed additive Zilmax in the U.S. and Canada while it studies a possible link between Zilmax and lameness in cattle.
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Improve, Don’t Reinvent, the Wheel
Kasey Brown
Angus Journal
To be successful, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. However, improvements, like adding spokes to a wheel or tread to a tire, can always be made. That figurative tread is what can propel an operation forward by giving it stability and traction. Fifth-generation farmer and rancher Chris Cadle, Grant City, Mo., aims to do just that.
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Industry Keeps Its Cool Amid Zilmax™ Ban, Angus Defects
Troy Marshall
BEEF
What a difference perspective makes. I say this because I believe that two events occurring over the last two weeks would have created – in an earlier time – widespread hysteria and, possibly, industry overreaction.
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Natural Resistance
Heather Smith Thomas
Hereford World
Disease caused by Salmonella and E. coli can be life-threatening in calves. Bacterial contamination of food with these pathogens is also a human food safety issue responsible for many illnesses in the U.S. each year. For instance, pathogenic strains of Salmonella cause approximately 40,000 documented cases of foodborne illness annually.
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Insight: Some U.S. feedlots rue loss of ‘Vitamin Z’ Zilmax
Lisa Baertlein and P.J. Huffstutter
MSN
After nearly a decade of relying on weight-gain feed additives as a lifeline to survival, some of the 75,000 U.S. cattle feedyards that dot rural America in places such as Texas and the Great Plains, suddenly must do without the leading product Zilmax – nicknamed "Vitamin Z."
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Argentina to boost beef production with IUD that prevents pregnant cows from reaching the slaughterhouse
The Raw Story
An Argentinian veterinarian has designed a cheap and simple device that could revolutionize cattle husbandry on the pampas by preventing pregnant cows from reaching the slaughterhouse.
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Number of Mexican cattle imported into US rapidly increasing
The Lawton Constitution
The number of Mexican cattle imported into the United States is rapidly increasing, according Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist.
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Market impact of Zilmax ban
Andy Vance
Beef Producer
Without Zilmax, the fed cattle population would likely need to be 2.3% larger to produce the same volume of beef, based on cocktail napkin economics.
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Pricing freezer beef
Jeannine Schweihofer
Michigan State University Extension
As feed prices fluctuate, cattle producers should know what the breakeven price is for finishing beef and use it to determine what to charge for freezer beef. The price of beef at a retail level is near record high.
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