When It Comes To The Sex Of Cattle They Breed, Dairy Farmers Take No Chances
The business of providing sex-selected semen to dairy farmers is fraught with court cases and patent fights.
In the commercial cattle business, girls rule. Cows give milk and meat. Bulls do not.
By: Shelly Brisbin
Source: Texas Standard
Link: http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/when-it-comes-to-the-sex-of-cattle-they-breed-dairy-farmers-take-no-chances/
Genetic testing is changing cattle of all stripes
To understand where the beef industry is going, take a look at where the dairy industry has been. That’s what the Beef Improvement Federation, a group that advances the science of beef genetics, did when it invited Tom Lawlor, a genomics expert for Holstein USA, to share his industry’s experience with DNA testing.
By: Gene Johnston
Source: Successful Farming
Link: https://www.agriculture.com/livestock/cattle/genetic-testing-is-changing-cattle-of-all-stripes
Implementation of Sound Breeding Policy for cattle reviewed
‘Proper breeding key to increasing milk yield, success of dairy farmer’
Are You Moving Cattle Across State Lines?
Animal identification required by the USDA Animal Disease Traceability program.
80 cattle killed, 125-year-old barn destroyed in Prince of Wales blaze
A well-known Ottawa dairy farmer and agriculture advocate is trying to stay strong after a fire ripped through his barn killing about 80 cows.
On cattle, Supreme Court showed the way by ruling for ban way back in 2005
Dairy farmers, after all, need to cull their herd to keep them healthy—9 million buffaloes, or 8% of the population, were killed in 2012.
Farmers protest new cattle market rules, say rearing will be wiped out
The Tamil Nadu Farmers Association has condemned the Centre’s ban on sale of cattle in the market place for slaughter.
Cattle trade curbs may hit milk self-sufficiency efforts
‘Rules may make it difficult for farmers to source cattle’ By: T. Nandakumar
Alberta cattle industry isn't just beef — milk cows give the province a dairy air
In a province famous for beef, a tiny portion of its roughly 4.9 million bovines are being raised to pump out the raw material for a glass of skim rather than a tasty T-bone.
Brazil Races Against Time to Save Drought-hit City, Dying Crops
The shrunken carcasses of cows lie in scorched fields outside the city of Campina Grande in northeast Brazil, and hungry goats search for food on the cracked-earth floor of the Boqueirao reservoir that serves the desperate town.