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Preventing pinkeye 

Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), or pinkeye, is one of the most common diseases in cow-calf and stocker operations. Pinkeye is caused by...

New Jersey Case Seeks To Set Farm-Animal Precedent 

Want Age With That? 

It seems so simple. A buyer wants you to verify the age and source of the calves you're selling, even says they're worth more money if you do. They're...

USDA's "28-Hour Rule" Expanded To Trucks 

Get'em comfortable 

The fall calf run is in full swing. Calves are being weaned, sold and shipped to the feedyards. Stress on these animals include not only these aforementioned...

Going Forward With BQA 

The U.S. beef industry has changed a great deal since the forerunners of today's Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) programs were initiated nearly two decades...

Willing & Waiting 

Sit in an industry meeting long enough, or leaf through an issue of most any beef publication, and you'd think demand for documented verification of such...

Foodborne Illness Rates Decline 

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From Our Columnists

Jim Gerrish

Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut

Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...

Jim Gerrish Archive

Harlan Hughes

Buy/sell margins - part III

The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...

Harlan Hughes Archive

Mark Hilton

Planning for successful breeding

What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...

Vet's Opinion Archive

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