Livestock/Equine News

New video aims to help producers strengthen livestock biosecurity

A new video from Iowa’s Department of Agriculture and Iowa State University aims to help livestock producers prevent foreign...

APHIS awards $14.4 million for animal disease preparedness

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is awarding $14.4 million to fund projects focused on animal health. The...

Step up biosecurity against avian influenza: Pennsylvania state vet

As countries in Europe and East Asia deal with outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, Pennsylvania’s top veterinarian is...

Boehringer Ingelheim and Kansas State University team up on animal health

Boehringer Ingelheim announced a strategic collaboration with Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The pharmaceutical company will donate...

Weekly livestock news: November 30, 2020

Meat plants tied to 6-8% of early COVID-19 cases: study Livestock processing plants “may act as transmission vectors” of...

Weekly livestock and equine news: November 23, 2020

Meat suppliers need to do more to contain disease, investor group says Some of the top meat suppliers aren’t...

Farm and environmental groups collaborate on climate policy recommendations

Several farm and environmental groups have teamed up to develop policy recommendations that they hope will unite the industries...

Groups request COVID-19 vaccine priority for ag workers

Amid promising news about the effectiveness of potential COVID-19 vaccines, members of the food and agriculture supply chain wrote...

Pork Board hopes to prevent disease outbreaks with new online tool

The National Pork Board has launched a new software platform that officials hope will help prevent disease outbreaks in...

New foothill abortion disease vaccine could help save producers millions

Researchers at two Western U.S. universities have developed a vaccine to prevent Epizootic bovine abortion, a disease that has...