Imagine less than 1% mortality and about 10% morbidity for loads of put-together lightweight calves (325 lbs.) from the Southeast freighted to starter yards in Kansas. Imagine cutting average death loss and morbidity by 40-50% and significantly reducing the prevalence of major pathogens.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has released its Cattle and Calves Non-Predator Death Loss in the U.S., 2010 report. Produced by APHIS’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), the report provides a breakdown of cattle and calf death losses in 2009 for all causes by size group and by region, with special emphasis on non-predator (NP) causes....More
Bovine tuberculosis (TB) no longer poses the significant cattle and human health risks it did in 1917 when the nation's TB eradication program was developed....More
Finding dead cattle from time to time isn't exactly uncommon. Finding a bunch of them all at once is another heartbreaking matter. An Arizona rancher...More
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Ready Campaign, in partnership with The Advertising Council, is introducing a series of social media tools to further engage Americans in emergency preparedness....More
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health (MBAH – www.bah.state.mn.us) says a farmed elk, a seven-year-old female, from an Olmsted County herd tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)....More
The Kansas State University campus has been officially named as the home of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced....More
Biosecurity, biocontainment, biological risk management. To the beef producer, these new buzzwords essentially mean the same thing addressing the possibility...More
Ask a swine producer about the role of biosecurity and herd health on the average hog farm, and a protocol and 20-minute lecture are surely to follow....More
Mention livestock identification nowadays and you're likely to get a wide range of reactions. Mention it to a rustler, however, and the reaction is likely...More
A final report on the United Kingdom's (UK) August outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) says it may have been caused by an aging drainage system at...More
