The Maasai’s pastoral practices had almost no discernible positive or negative effect on the ecological well-being of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

MSU Extension’s Emergency Response to Accidents Involving Livestock (ERAIL) team offers a Saturday training for responders to learn how to effectively respond to accident situations that can occur when hauling livestock.

Cattle contribute more greenhouse gases than other livestock.

Insight into the 2023 Canadian Calf Crop The Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC), in collaboration with Canfax Research Services and regional representatives, recently took a snapshot of production practices that have been adopted by cow-calf producers across the country, as well as performance measures of their herds.  The inaugural Canadian Cow-Calf Survey collected data from

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle and feeder cattle futures fell on Thursday on renewed worries over inflation-hit consumers’ ability to purchase pricy cuts of meat, Reuters reported, citing traders. Hog futures also fell on a seasonal lull in prices and a strong supply of heavy hogs. Beef and pork demand has eased as the

U.S. pork producers are in Washington D.C. this week to meet with policy makers regarding four key issues: the farm bill, a legislative fix to California Proposition 12, resolutions to the labor shortage and an active trade agenda. “We need to have a farm bill done this year. It’s vitally important for us as pork

National Pork Producers Council Chief Legal Strategist Michael Formica recently led a coalition of agricultural groups in an appeal before the National Fire Protection Association’s Standards Council over a decision earlier this summer to change the fire code to require livestock barns to install sprinkler systems. The coalition was supported in its appeal by the

The Swine Health Information Center, along with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Pork Checkoff, joined together to fund and launch a $2.3M two-year Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program in the fall of 2022. The goal of the research program is to investigate cost-effective, innovative technologies, protocols, and ideas to enhance biosecurity implementation during

U.S. pork producers are just one of many agricultural groups impacted by worsening economic conditions. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) joined over 300 national and state groups to send a letter to congressional leaders on Sept. 9 urging them to pass the farm bill before year’s end. Producers across the country have experienced headwinds

Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a vaccine to protect cattle against a deadly tick-borne disease.