The cow-calf stage in raising beef cattle is part of the U.S. agricultural landscape, with a wide variation in farm revenue and production practices across the United States. Unlike other sectors in which farms are becoming larger, a relatively large percentage of beef cow-calf enterprises are still small-scale. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]

Eleven years after it committed to phasing out confinement for pigs and laying hens by 2018, Calgary Co-op is facing renewed calls from an animal-welfare organization to provide a public update on how, or whether, it has changed how it sources its meat and eggs. The calls for transparency also come seven years after the

With the fall run in full swing, cattle producers want to make sure their spring-born calves have a good start in the feedyard.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture welcomed a beef genetics trade team from Canada in late October.

Heifer development and capturing value for genetically superior cows will be among the topics discussed at the workshop.

A successful calving season does not begin at calving, rather it begins much earlier, with the management of the cow herd months prior.

The animals can act as “mixing vessels” for human and bird flu viruses

An ASF trade recovery program needs to be established to protect the Canadian pork industry if the disease enters Canada.

Haying season is over, the days are getting shorter, and temperatures are cooler.

As one of the Swine Health Information Center’s most accessed resources, swine disease fact sheets provide specific information on emerging or re-emerging pathogens. Recently updated, these facts sheets for pseudorabies virus, Japanese encephalitis virus as well as Ebola and Reston virus are now published. Newly included information encompasses disease outbreak demographics and impacts, virology and