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Webinar will discuss bovine respiratory disease, animal welfare and antibiotics
Bovine respiratory disease costs beef producers $900 million a year, and treatment choices are important, according to Beef Magazine....
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Weekly livestock news: August 31, 2020
California wildfires threaten farmland Approximately 770,000 acres burned recently in California’s fires, including farmland, Feedstuffs reports. According to a...
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Merck’s Porcilis Ileitis vaccine approved for multi-dose administration
Merck Animal Health recently announced its Porcilis Ileitis vaccine is now approved for multi-dose administration to vaccinate piglets against...
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ASF vaccine moves forward in China; study questions ASF spread in feed
An African swine fever vaccine in China will begin expanded trials, after an initial study found it to be...
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Weekly livestock and equine news: August 24, 2020
Researchers look to equine antibodies as potential COVID-19 treatment Borrowing from decades of experience producing snake antivenoms, scientists, veterinarians...
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Oral anthrax vaccine could help livestock, wildlife
Researchers at Texas A&M University are working to perfect an anthrax vaccine that can be delivered to livestock orally,...
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ASF continues to spread, as Danish prevention technique shows early success
The global distribution of African swine fever two years after it first emerged in China is a pattern of...
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Weekly livestock news: August 17, 2020
Fatty acids in feed may influence dairy production, research shows Changing the fatty acid profile of dairy feed has...
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Two new genes identified in infectious bronchitis virus
Two genes recently discovered in infectious bronchitis virus, the cause of a highly contagious poultry disease, demonstrate the complexities...
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Grooming behavior in dairy cows points to complex social networks
Dairy cow herds have complex social structures, and they’re revealed in the animals’ grooming habits, new research shows. Scientists...
