From the beginning of the year, the supply of bred heifers meant that beef cow slaughter in 2023 would have to decrease sharply…in excess of 18 percent year over year…in order to avoid additional herd ...

The PDP Dairy Wellbeing Workshop is one of the most valuable opportunities for dairy team members to see firsthand how the ...

That’s when Wavrin learned that a single Holstein from his dairy was the first in the United States to test positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow, the terrorizing cattle ...

requires milk-producing dairy cattle moving across state lines to secure a negative bird flu test no more than seven days prior to travel. It also allows non-producing cattle headed to slaughter to ...

Dairy production, including beef x dairy calves, are included in the cattle inventory and production data that are routinely available. Calf crop, cattle on feed, and slaughter data and other data ...

The deaths prompted policy changes announced Friday by the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration, which focus on ...

Mick O'Dowd, Head of Agriculture in Kepak speaks to the Farmers Journal about an initiative targeted at dairy bred calves ...

Livestock imports from Germany are banned by the Isle of Man to prevent the spread of the virus.

California had four of the top five counties for dairy cow numbers in 2012, according to the 2012 Census of Agriculture. Tulare County had the top milk cow inventory in the nation in 2012 with 489,436 ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently updated it policy for pre-slaughter surveillance of turkeys in ...

FRESNO, Calif. – Avian influenza has now infected cattle at more than 700 of California’s dairies. That encompasses the vast majority of farms that make up the state’s $8-billion-a-year dairy industry ...