Sixteen veterinary students from across the country were presented scholarships at the 49th Annual Conference of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) in Charlotte, North Carolina, through the AABP Foundation – Zoetis Veterinary Student Scholarship program. The fourth-year veterinary students each received a $5,000 scholarship and travel to the conference. “The AABP Foundation and Zoetis collaborate to provide students … Read More
CattleFax Announces Outlook & Strategies Seminar
The cattle industry is facing larger domestic supplies for 2017 and 2018, and pork and poultry production will be record large as well says CattleFax. Beef industry participants will feel the far-reaching influence of livestock expansion well beyond 2016. CattleFax will discuss those implications in detail during its Outlook & Strategies 2017 Seminar on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 in Littleton, … Read More
Merck Animal Health Beef Sustainability Calculator App
Merck Animal Health has launched a new app for Apple and Android. The Meat Sustainability Calculator, which is designed to help producers, suppliers and others in the food chain better understand how the beef production systems and technologies they use impact the environment. The app was created in partnership with Jude Capper, Ph.D., an independent sustainability consultant. Data from peer-reviewed … Read More
Portable Manure Separation For Concentrated Dairies
Bauer North America, a supplier of irrigation and waste management solutions for dairy producers in the United States and Canada, has introduced the Bauer Plug and Play Portable Manure Separator. “The Plug and Play Manure Separator is a portable, space-saving option for dairies with high animal density but limited space,” said company representative, Robert Hultgren. “It allows dairy farmers the … Read More
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Address Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released a final rule that begins to address rampant abuse of the Endangered Species Act listing process. The rule limits petitions for new listings to one species and will require more substantive justification in order to file a petition for listing under the ESA. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council … Read More
Meet @USFRA Supporter Janna Stubbs
Janna Stubbs from Alpine, Texas is a cow-calf operator who serves on the Cattlemens’ Beef Board executive committee and is all about telling agriculture’s story to the general public. “I married into this 14 years ago and I really enjoy being a part of agriculture and the cattle industry,” Janna said during an interview for our I AM USFRA series … Read More
NCBA Takes Stand Against HSUS
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) was recently notified that Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) attorneys have filed a lawsuit against USDA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) on behalf of the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM). This lawsuit seeks to divide the beef industry against itself by opening old wounds and weakening the beef checkoff as HSUS drives … Read More
BQA Free Certification Period Announced
Time for beef and dairy producers to become Beef Quality Assurance (BQA)-certified free online through Nov. 13 thanks to Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI). Anyone who becomes certified during this period is eligible to win a prize package, courtesy of BIVI and the BQA program, funded in part by the beef checkoff. The BQA program is important to the cattle … Read More
NCBA 2017 National Anthem Contest
Are you a singing star who wants to be a part of the 2017 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tennessee? National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s (NCBA) fourth annual National Anthem Singing Contest is now open. Contestants must be 18 or younger and related to an NCBA, ANCW or CBB member. The contest winner will sing the Star … Read More
Dairy Groups Challenge Protectionist Dairy Policy in Canada
Dairy organizations in the United States, Australia, the European Union, Mexico and New Zealand issued a joint letter to their respective trade and agriculture officials, expressing indignation about Canada’s recent actions to deepen its restrictions on dairy trade. The groups said Canada’s policies violate “international trade obligations, hold out the prospect of trade diversion with attendant global price-depressing impacts and … Read More