What does this mean on the label of my fly control product?

What does this mean on the label of my fly control product?

Dr. Ken McMillan

DTN/The Progressive Farmer

There are two types of feed-through fly control products. Which works best for you?

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Florida ranch manager accused of stealing more than 100 cows

Florida ranch manager accused of stealing more than 100 cows

Brett Wessler

Drovers

The ranch manager at Pine Ridge Plantation in western Martin County, Florida was arrested Monday after at least 175 cows were stolen and sold at area livestock auctions.

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Research-based tips for the heifer replacement selection

Research-based tips for the heifer replacement selection

FarmTalk

There are some important research-based tips that should be used to select and develop replacement heifers that will improve longevity of any cattle herd.

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Rebuilding U.S. Cow Herd Going to be ‘Very Tough,’ AFBF Economist Says

Rebuilding U.S. Cow Herd Going to be ‘Very Tough,’ AFBF Economist Says

Oklahoma Farm Report

The FFA Convention continues in Louisville, Kentucky, this week and Radio Oklahoma Network Farm Director Ron Hays is there. He caught up with Bob Young, chief economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation at the Young Farmers and Ranchers booth.

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Selection Made Simple: Pick The 8-in-5 Package!

Selection Made Simple: Pick The 8-in-5 Package!

Alan Newport

Beef Producer

Johann Zietsman has a very simple way of describing the efficient kind of cow or bull: He says they should look like eight pounds of sugar in a five-pound package; — an "8-in-5 package."

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Dreaming beyond the slaughterhouse

Dreaming beyond the slaughterhouse

Peggy Lowe and Abbie Fentress Swanson

The Gazette

Meet the newest chapter in an age-old American story. Since the days of “The Jungle,” immigrants have been the backbone of factories built by the U.S. meatpacking industry. The newcomers from Europe filled the slaughterhouses of the past, centered in Chicago and Kansas City. Now the newcomers flock to rural towns where the plants have been relocated, the workers consist of migrants from parts of Asia, Africa and Central America.

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Cargill bans Zilmax from beef supply until issues resolved

Cargill bans Zilmax from beef supply until issues resolved

P.J. Huffstutter

Reuters

Cargill Inc, one of the world’s largest beef processors, threw a wrench into Merck & Co.’s plans to reintroduce its feed additive Zilmax, stating it will not accept Zilmax-fed beef into the Cargill supply chain "until we are 100 percent confident the animal welfare issues are resolved."

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Turn a cow into a show heifer rather than try and turn a show heifer into a cow

Turn a cow into a show heifer rather than try and turn a show heifer into a cow

Hannah White

Simmental Register

. . . The Bedwell’s cattle operation strikes a happy medium focusing on sound cattle, birth to yearling spread, and carcass EPDs. “EPDs are how you progress, how you become elite. But, it’s a balance. Cattle have to walk and be sound. When buying a bull, it would be silly not to utilize EPDs to inject your personal preference.”

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Farming is not a public health risk

Farming is not a public health risk

Scott Hurd

USA Today

As a father of eight children, I am deeply concerned about food quality and cost. I appreciate choice, but as a state employee I cannot afford organic, free range or food raised with methods from the 1950s. I hope my carrot, lettuce and meat providers are using the safest and most efficient modern methods possible.

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Lessons learned on the show halter

Lessons learned on the show halter

Michele Payn-Knoper

Gate to Plate Blog

A few pieces of leather and a small metal chain. Not a lot makes up a show halter that can control a thousand pounds of animal, but those pieces seem to intertwine with heartstrings – and carry a lifetime of lessons.

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