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New swine facility ups efficiency, meets welfare standards
Myron and Neil Ramseyer hope their new swine barn does two things: provide more efficient use of space and satisfy the concerns of animal rights activists.
For the Bay: Precision feeding now extends to beef cattle in Pennsylvania
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A strategy to control nutrient pollution from livestock in the Chesapeake Bay watershed — precision feeding, which increasingly has been employed in dairy operations — is now being extended to beef cattle. Penn State Extension educators, who have been guiding agricultural producers through the process of employing precision feeding, are taking
Beef cattle numbers decreasing as producers back out of the business
URBANA, Ill. — A smaller beef herd reported in USDA‘s Jan. 1 cattle inventory estimates has provided the cattle markets with even more bullish news. Beef cow numbers continue to fall as producers seem to want out of the business, said Purdue University Extension economist Chris Hurt. “The continued decline is related to multi-year financial
USDA continues to develop plans to meet the challenge of climate change
CANCUN, Mexico — Calling it “one of the greatest threats facing our planet,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently said the USDA is taking action to meet the challenge of climate change. Speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the secretary said the USDA continues to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “by helping
Diverse crowd and views typical at Ohio’s livestock care meetings
Public shares wide-ranging comments at final meeting of 2010.
Harrison SWCD meets funding challenges head-on for second year
Harrison County SWCD looks outside of the box to meet its funding challenges.
Association’s annual meeting features sustainability, data-driven decisions
BOISE, Idaho — With a theme of “Sustainability Through Data-Driven Decisions,” National Dairy Herd Information Association held its 44th annual meeting March 4-5 in Boise, Idaho. Topics Session topics included milk recording, management and analysis, animal identification systems, genomics, dairy beef quality assurance, worldwide dairy update and new economic realities. For five consecutive years, the
Make plans for 2009 Eastern Ohio Beef Management School
CARROLLTON, Ohio — Four sessions of the 2009 Eastern Ohio Beef Management School have been set. The first session is Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. at Pushkarich Libary in Cadiz. Extension educator Mike Hogan will discuss ideas for reducing costs and improving profitability in the cow-calf herd. The session also includes a talk on new
19 Ohioans sick from ground beef; Kroger connection
COLUMBUS — Ohio departments of health and agriculture confirmed June 25 that a raw ground beef sample provided by an Ohio E. coli O157:H7 case is linked by genetic fingerprinting to the multistate outbreak in Ohio and Michigan.
Might be more to cause of dead cows than meets the eye
Reader questions other possible causes of cattle death.
