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BBC For the past 12 years, Freddy Morales has spent most of his time in close proximity to America’s dairy cows, working on several of the country’s thousands of dairy farms.

Driving or riding through a pen or pasture of cattle is a favorite chore for many producers.

The researchers randomly split 20 cows between four treatments: a high dose of AT; a low dose of this red seaweed; oregano, which also inhibits methane formation; and the control group. They rotated the animals among the treatments in four 28-day periods.

Protecting farm animals from diseases spread by insects starts with insect prevention.

New Mexico State University’s annual field day at the Rex E. Kirksey Agricultural Science Center in Tucumcari, New Mexico, will be held Aug. 6.

For ranchers, risk is an accepted part of doing business.

Sweet clover is a biennial plant that grows abundantly following a wet year. As a grazing resource, sweet clover can be excellent feed.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture is wrapping up a process that began after some farm and environmental groups lobbied state legislators for more regulatory oversight on large, commercial-scale livestock farms.

Lauren Meier of Bondurant and Kirby Cook of Winthrop are spending their summers interning with the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA). Both are Iowa State University students interested in a career in agriculture. However, their family backgrounds are quite a contrast. Kirby Cook’s family is deeply involved in the pork industry. Lauren Meier’s path to

Hog confinement buildings are proof that anything that is well maintained can likely outlive its shelf life. Those large white buildings that went up in the 1990s were expected to last around 20 years. Now more than three decades later, many are still being used as finishers, nurseries and farrowing houses. “For the most part,