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Building a goat business
A Missouri producer sees a stable meat goat market and sells to domestic and international customers. When you think of goats, does the state of Missouri pop into your mind? It should. The state ranks...
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APHIS proposes new reportable animal disease list
List spells out which animal diseases need to be reported and who needs to report them. A new National List of Reportable Animal Diseases is being proposed by USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection...
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Meat processing employees demand more protection
First worker tested positive for COVID-19 last week, social distancing not possible in processing plants where workers work side by side. By Jen Skerritt and Tatiana FreitasA growing number of workers...
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Are animals vulnerable to COVID-19?
An OSU researcher breaks down what is known to date. While there’s no evidence so far that pets, livestock or their owners can infect each other with COVID-19, there is also very little research about...
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Texas grower diversifies with sunflowers; hopeful markets will rebound
While commodity and livestock markets have dropped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay Wilder is hopeful they'll recover. A year ago, producer and cow/calf operator Jay Wilder stood in one of his fields...
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Returning from Silicon Valley to home on High Plains
A producer adjusts to his role as a manager and puts new ideas in place on his family's ranch in western Nebraska. First dates can be nerve-wracking, especially when you tell your date, a...
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Sheep supply catalog makes entertaining reading
Hayhurst's Hayloft: Flipping through a Sullivan Supply catalog for goats and sheep made me laugh. Our family knows about showing cattle and hogs. But I recently saw a Sullivan Supply catalog for goats...
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UC urges cattle producers to take precautions
University recommends limiting the number of participants in spring work, keeping social distance The COVID-19 pandemic has much of the California population staying home in an effort to reduce the...
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UC Davis names new director for large animal clinic
Bret McNabb appointed to five-year term effective April 1 Bret McNabb has been appointed as director of the Large Animal Clinic at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH), effective...
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What to do about mold in feed
Buckeye Beef Brief: Mold can result in significant production losses. Now that we are getting into the summer months, moldy feed might not be on your mind right now, especially if your livestock are...
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Director Jerry Costello's legislative priorities
The new head of the Illinois Department of Agriculture brings his legislative background to bear with three priorities: LMFA, dicamba and anhydrous handling. Now that he’s at the helm of the Illinois...
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Tyson, JBS close meat processing plants
Workers test positive for COVID-19 at Iowa pork processing plant, several show symptoms at JBS plant in Pennsylvania. By Lydia MulvanyMajor U.S. meat plants are starting to take more drastic measures...
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First-generation beef producer builds family business
Slideshow: The Bichler family, Linton, N.D., received one of four Outstanding Young Farmer Awards. Doug and Maria Bichler, Linton, N.D., recently received one of four National Outstanding Young Farmer...
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Warm-season forages break dormancy, need help emerging
Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 7, 2020 Warm-season forages broke dormancy and could use some help, says Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton.Weather has been...
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COVID-19 aid promised sooner, rather than later
Dairy groups differ over how to best address the supply and demand imbalance. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said his staff at the U.S. Department of Agriculture is meeting daily, collecting...
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What should my pastures look like?
The Sandhills Rangeland Monitoring Cooperative has started to evaluate monitoring data on ranches. Rangeland monitoring is an important task to help understand how rangeland management practices...
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More viruses adapting to jump from animals to humans
Ohio State University researchers are watching the progression of a pig virus now. Viruses have been increasingly shifting from animals to people, a recent trend that has researchers at Ohio State...
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Livestock markets face negative market forces
Coronavirus is forcing milk dumping, plant closures and even a bacon glut at the store. We explore those topics in the podcast Around Farm Progress It's hard to quantify the impact of coronavirus on...
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New Indiana law makes change to advisory plan commissions
An Extension ag educator must live within the county to be a voting member of the commission. The 2020 Indiana General Assembly dealt with issues related to ensuring control stays local, either by...
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Smithfield closing hits South Dakota farm family hard
More than 500 farm families in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa supply Smithfield with hogs. Shane Odegaard, Lake Preston, S.D., has three semi-loads of finished hogs — about 540 head — set to go to...
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