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Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Recommends Eating Less Red Meat The advisory committee for the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans has issued a recommendation to reduce red meat consumption and increase plant-based proteins like beans, lentils, and soy. This change, if adopted by USDA and HHS, could reframe federal nutrition guidelines, affecting programs like school lunches. […]

An out-of-feed event on a farm can cause major problems in just a short amount of time. Having a back-up plan can allow for feed to be manufactured, delivered and placed in feeders in a timely manner during times of crisis while the producer continues to run an operation like normal. A new publication from

Kansas State University swine nutritionist Jason Woodworth says 70% of the costs in swine production relate to feed — a figure that can be reduced by substituting conventional crude protein sources like soybean meal with synthetic amino acids. While that practice cheapens rations, it creates imbalances in amino acid to crude protein, which caused Woodworth

Walk onto a modern hog farm and it is typical to find climate-controlled farrowing houses filled with hardworking sows nursing litters of 12 or more piglets. That scene, says Kansas State University swine specialist Mike Tokach, is quite different from two decades ago. Tokach notes that sizeable growth in litter sizes has elevated sow input

Growth promoting technologies, when used correctly, are valuable tools that improve efficiency and increase weight gain in growing cattle

The cattle industry is looking at a variety of methods to mitigate methane emissions ranging from molecular manipulation to genetics. It’s a wide-open field, says Conor McCabe, a doctoral student at the University of California-Davis who focuses on dairy cattle sustainability. “Burping produces 95% of all methane emissions from cattle,” he says. “They consume a

As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday that the strain of bird flu detected in a California child is similar to the strain spreading through livestock.

The year 2024 is rapidly coming to a close as we enter the holiday season and soon we’ll be entering 2025.

Many factors need to be considered when developing watering sources for livestock. Adequate amounts of water are needed to maintain high levels of production.

This year, the Kansas Beef Council (KBC) is combining tradition and technology with a new digital out-of-home advertising campaign designed to connect with shoppers in grocery stores and retail locations.