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  • Beef Herd Management Strategies

    Beef Herd Management Strategies

    Learn key management practices to improve sustainability in small herd operations. Cow-calf operation sustainability involves the efficient use of resources on-farm to improve herd profitability and farm productivity now and for future generations. For operations with less than fifty head of catt...
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  • WHAT IS ANTHRAX AND WHAT CAUSES IT

    WHAT IS ANTHRAX AND WHAT CAUSES IT

    Anthrax is a naturally occuring disease with worldwide distribution. It is caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming bacteria that can remain alive, but dormant in the soil for many years. The bacteria can “bloom” and contaminate surface soil and grass after periods of wet, cool w...
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  • Understanding parturition a risk management tool for cow-calf operations

    Understanding parturition a risk management tool for cow-calf operations

    A review of the stages of parturition can help lessen anxieties of cow-calf operators and protect producer investment in their animals during the upcoming calving season, said Oklahoma State University Extension experts. There are three stages to parturition. It is not unusual for stage one – the...
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  • Turning young bulls into productive herd sires

    Turning young bulls into productive herd sires

    Environmental factors, of which herd management forms an integral part, exert a 70% influence on the performance of an adult bull, whereas genetics account for only 30%. This means that the nutrition of young bulls is crucial to ensuring a top-performing adult animal, according to Dr Francois van...
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  • Tips for a Successful Dry-Off Using Selective Dry Cow Therapy (SDCT)

    Tips for a Successful Dry-Off Using Selective Dry Cow Therapy (SDCT)

    Why Selective Dry Cow Therapy (SDCT)? Keep Mastitis and Somatic Cell Count (SCC) Low Dairy farms around the world are shifting to selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) to improve the judicious use of antibiotics without compromising cow health or welfare. Mathijs Bakker, dairy veterinarian and consult...
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  • Reducing beef cattle GHG emissions

    Reducing beef cattle GHG emissions

    Several scientists are exploring the various aspects of raising cattle with the overarching goals of quantifying greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and identifying ways to reduce them. One study, conducted at USask’s Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence’s (LFCE) Termuende Ranch near Lanigan, is ...
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  • New study shows the toll industrial farming takes on bird diversity

    New study shows the toll industrial farming takes on bird diversity

    A new UBC-led study looking into the impacts that large industrial farming has on biodiversity found that increased farm size causes a decline in bird diversity. “Wildlife is a good indicator of a healthy agroecosystem and one thing we wanted to understand was the link between farm size and...
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  • Large Animal Models of Breast Cancer

    Large Animal Models of Breast Cancer

    In this mini review the status, advantages, and disadvantages of large animal modeling of breast cancer (BC) will be discussed. While most older studies of large animal BC models utilized canine and feline subjects, more recently there has been interest in development of porcine BC models, with s...
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  • Listeriosis often found in silage fed in winter

    Listeriosis often found in silage fed in winter

    Listeriosis is a bacterial disease caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. The bacteria is ubiquitous in the environment and survives well in moist soil for about 1 year. In domestic animals the disease is most important in ruminants and most commonly seen during winter months when animals...
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  • Higher milk production, lower carbon footprint

    Higher milk production, lower carbon footprint

    The subject of methane emissions from dairy cattle has received increasing attention from environmental activists concerned about climate change. This has spilled over to consumers, many of whom are seeking milk alternatives to reduce their carbon footprints. To maintain market share and increase...
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  • Cost of farming escalates for producers in Namibia

    Cost of farming escalates for producers in Namibia

    Performance testing of a beef cattle herd entails the weighing of animals at certain ages to determine their genetic value. Data obtained through such tests provide farmers with an objective selection aid to identify the best-performing animals in their herds to be used as parents for the next ge...
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  • Can ‘machine learning’ help predict dairy cow intakes

    Can ‘machine learning’ help predict dairy cow intakes

    This is a question that scientists at AFBI have been trying to answer within a project which is examining ‘precision feeding’ approaches for dairy cows. Being able to improve the accuracy with which we can predict the intakes of dairy cows, either for the whole herd, or for individual cows, has b...
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  • Calf personality, feeding, and growth When one style doesn’t fit all

    Calf personality, feeding, and growth When one style doesn’t fit all

    In a natural setting, cows and nursing calves together set the feeding schedule for the calf, and calves wean gradually, completing weaning at varying ages. By contrast, in artificial rearing systems with minimal cow-calf contact, the weaning schedule may be strictly determined, with reductions o...
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  • New Year, New Journey.

    New Year, New Journey.

    After a year’s efforts, Fangtong will take a holiday from 27th January to 10th February, 2022 to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival and welcome the new year of the tiger. At this time of welcoming Chinese new year, We would like to send our sincere thanks to all our customers. Thank you for...
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  • ‘Push-pull’ innovation helps female farmers in East Africa see crop, livestock, and income improvements

    ‘Push-pull’ innovation helps female farmers in East Africa see crop, livestock, and income improvements

    Since 2019, the amount of milk Mariam Bagune’s livestock produce has doubled. Ever since she began implementing a sustainable farming technique called “push-pull,” Bagune and other female farmers in Ethiopia have observed a number of improved farm outputs. Push-pull is a method named for its abil...
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  • Smallholder dairy production in Kenya

    Abstract Kenya’s dairy sub sector contributes about 8% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with an annual milk production of 3.43 billion litres. Kenyan milk production is 3% of the 18% global production by Sub Saharan Africa. Dairy cattle population is estimated at 4.3 million kept under extensive, ...
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  • ‘Livestock farming remains a cornerstone of Namibia’s economy’

    ‘Livestock farming remains a cornerstone of Namibia’s economy’

    The Namibian agriculture sector’s contribution to that country’s GDP grew from 4,5% in 2019 to almost 6,6% in 2020. This was according to Thinus Pretorius, chairperson of the Namibian Livestock Producers’ Organisation (LPO). He said in the LPO’s annual review for 2021 that primary livestock produ...
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  • Live cattle, lean hog futures fall on sluggish slaughter

    Live cattle, lean hog futures fall on sluggish slaughter

    Live cattle, lean hog futures fall on sluggish slaughter  Disruptions blamed on weather, labour shortages and COVID Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle and lean hog futures fell on Friday as sluggish slaughter rates continue to drag on prices, traders said. “They’re both fac...
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  • From meadow to plate could cultured meat made from grass replace animals

    From meadow to plate could cultured meat made from grass replace animals

    An affordable lab system that uses grass blades to turn cells into cultured meat has been developed at the University of Bath. Researchers at the University of Bath have successfully taken grass from the university’s campus and used it to create a scaffold that animal cells can attach to and grow...
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  • Bottle Jaw

    Bottle Jaw

    DESCRIPTION This is the abnormal accumulation of clear oedema fluid under the skin of the lower jaw. It can be caused by an increase in local hydrostatic pressure such as from abscessed submandibular lymph nodes blocking lymph drainage or grass seeds blocking salivary ducts. Most commonly it is c...
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  • Bison calves leading the way to biobank creation

    Bison calves leading the way to biobank creation

    The wood and plains bison are majestic creatures weighing 1,200 pounds, but their conservation could depend on single-celled gametes (reproductive cells) that are measured in microns.   These sperm and egg gametes, which carry the bison’s genetic material, are a vital component of research t...
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  • Critical Linkages Between Livestock Production, Livestock Trade and Potential Spread of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda: Bioeconomic Herd Modeling and Livestock Trade Analysis

    Critical Linkages Between Livestock Production, Livestock Trade and Potential Spread of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda: Bioeconomic Herd Modeling and Livestock Trade Analysis

    Background: Tsetse-transmitted human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) remains endemic in Uganda. The chronic form caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (gHAT) is found in north-western Uganda, whereas the acute zoonotic form of the disease, caused by T. b. brucei rhodesiense (rHAT), occurs in the e...
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  • Administering Health Care Products to Goats

    Administering Health Care Products to Goats

    Health care is the second greatest cost of production in raising goats, so it makes sense that you should maximize the effectiveness of the medications that you do give by storing and administering them properly. The first and most important thing that you should do when you purchase a health car...
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  • A Higher Production Capacity, A New Journey!

    A Higher Production Capacity, A New Journey!

    A new year brings new hopes and leads a new journey with new dreams. Chongqing Fangtong has also ushered in new changes. Through the unremitting efforts of all employees, the new workshops will be put into use soon. The new workshops integrate the advantages of Fangtong animal drug production t...
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