beef cattle News
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition Strengthens its Beef Cattle Expertise
Lallemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruno Martin as new Ruminant Technical Support Manager to support the company’s beef cattle activities in Europe. Few months ago, the Company also hired Dr Kerry Barling, a veterinarian with experience in beef health and microbiology as Global Manager of Beef Technology for the North American market. Bruno Martin has over ...
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Fall Beef Outlook is Strong
Thanks to lower corn prices, improved pasture conditions and increased domestic demand, beef cattle producers can expect to continue to see record prices for beef this year, according to a beef cattle expert with Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Add to the equation that the beef cow herd is the smallest in decades, exports are increasing in ...
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Neogen partners with IGS to enhance Igenity Beef Profile
Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with International Genetic Solutions (IGS). The effort is focused on heightening genomic impact in the IGS platform, the only major multibreed beef genetic evaluation available, and at the same time greatly enhancing the research and development necessary to continue to improve Neogen’s Igenity Beef ...
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The 5 Biggest Farms in world
In Farming sometimes size matters, so we at Herdsy have scoured the globe and have located the five largest farms in the world. The size of some of these, farms are staggering. What is surprising that all of the Top 5 are located in just two countries China & Australia! China has 393mn hectares of grassland of which 331mn is deemed usable for grazing. Australia has 250mn hectares of grazing ...
By Herdsy Ltd
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A success for the International beef Exchange organized by Lallemand Animal Nutrition and INRA Clermont (France)
On September 29th – 30th, around 150 international experts and professionals of the beef cattle industry gathered at INRA, in Clermont-Ferrand (France), for a seminar dedicated to international beef production, with a focus on welfare and digestive comfort. This seminar was jointly organized by Lallemand Animal Nutrition and INRA. This event was a great platform for exchange of experiences ...
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Tour Exemplary Regenerative Farm as SFA ‘Dirt Rich’ Comes to Becker
Learn the principles of silvopasture, oak savanna restoration, grazing mangement, and how these techniques can boost your farm profitability at the Sustainable Farming Association’s “Dirt Rich: Building Soil Health Experts” on Sept. 18 in Becker, Minn. This event, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wed., Sept. 18, at Tom Barthel and Gail Wilkinson’s Snake River Farm, 18251 62nd St, ...
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New Beef Educator Guides Available
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 20, 2013 – The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture has released two new educational guides to accompany the books “Beef in the Story of Agriculture” and “Beef an A-Z Book.” Both guides are developed for elementary grade classrooms and follow Common Core and national standards for education. The educator guides give teachers ...
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Vermeer BPX9000 bale processor earns major Chinese agriculture award
A premier leader in forage modernization around the world, Vermeer Corporation was recently awarded the 2015 Ag Machinery Applications Contributor award at the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Forum for their successful application of the BPX9000 bale processor in China’s dairy and beef cattle industries. “The simplicity, durability and versatility of the machine have been ...
By Vermeer
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Heat Stress Round Table in Serbia
Twenty-five dairy and beef farm leaders, feed millers and independent nutritionists participated in a round table discussion about this hot topic in Serbia, mid-May 2015. Organized by Lallemand Animal Nutrition and Serbian Distributor Elixirfeed, this event took place in the middle of Vojvodina, a major region for dairy production. During the Rumen School previously organized in Serbia, ...
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Vermeer BPX9000 bale processor earns major Chinese agriculture award
A premier leader in forage modernization around the world, Vermeer Corporation was recently awarded the 2015 Ag Machinery Applications Contributor award at the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Forum for their successful application of the BPX9000 bale processor in China’s dairy and beef cattle industries. “The simplicity, durability and versatility of the machine have been ...
By Vermeer
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Peak Meat
By Janet Larsen U.S. meat consumption has peaked. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that meat eating across the country fell from the 2004 high point of 184 pounds (83 kilograms) per person to 171 pounds in 2011. Early estimates for 2012 project a further reduction in American meat eating to 166 pounds, making for a 10 percent drop over the eight-year period. For a society ...
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Satellite mapping reveals agricultural slowdown in Latin America: UBC study
For the first time, satellite mapping of Latin America shows that the continent’s agricultural expansion has waned in the wake of the global economic downturn, according to UBC research. “Nearly every agricultural region across Latin America slowed down in expansion from 2007 to 2013, compared to the previous six years,” says Jordan Graesser, the study’s lead author. ...
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Beef feedlot in underwood, Iowa, to pay $20,000 civil penalty to settle discharge violations affecting mosquito creek
A beef feedlot in Underwood, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $20,000 civil penalty for unpermitted discharges of wastewater from the facility into Mosquito Creek. Moran Beef, Inc., agreed to pay the penalty as part of an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan. In June 2009, EPA inspectors visited the facility and found that it lacked controls to prevent the ...
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition Launches Alkosel 600 Selenium Supplement
Lallemand Animal Nutrition announces the availability of Alkosel 600 in the United States. Alkosel 600 is a new, ready-to-use formulation of the company’s inactivated whole cell yeast containing organic selenium that can be used without the added step of premixing. “At Lallemand Animal Nutrition, we’re committed to addressing the industries’ needs with specific, natural ...
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EPA issues compliance orders to seven concentrated animal feeding operations in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to seven concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Region 7’s latest round of CAFO enforcement activity, aimed at encouraging producers’ compliance with the Clean Water Act and ...
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Petersen-Bubke, LLP, beef feedlot in Monona County, Iowa, to pay $10,000 penalty for illegal discharges into rush creek
Petersen-Bubke, LLP, a beef cattle feedlot in Monona County, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $10,000 civil penalty to the United States for violations of the federal Clean Water Act related to discharges of pollutants into Rush Creek and its tributaries. According to an administrative civil consent agreement and final order filed by EPA in Kansas City, Kan., EPA personnel conducted a compliance ...
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Ruminant Animal Feed Pellet Production Business Plan
In recent years, more and more farmers who feed cattle, cow, sheep and other animals choose to make their own animal feed by purchasing a small set of ruminant animal feed production plant. How much does it cost to set up an animal feed production plant? What’s the price of small feed processing unit? How to make the best ruminant animal feed production business plan? Hot Sale Equipment For ...
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Proper Hay Storage Techniques Can Increase Value, Decrease Quality Losses
Producers who follow the proper techniques for hay storage will find their crops will retain more value and suffer fewer losses, said a beef cattle expert from the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. Considering that hay production is very costly, producers may want to take special care to store hay correctly to ensure it retains quality, said ...
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The Livestock Event 2014: More Livestock + New Technical
The Livestock Event, the UK’s leading livestock trade show held at The NEC, Birmingham on 2 and 3 July and organised by RABDF Events, will be welcoming a record 400 livestock entries and over 450 trade exhibitors, providing the most comprehensive offering of any UK event, all under one roof in the most easily accessed location. Farmers can drive straight in off the motorway network to free ...
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The Livestock Event 2014: more livestock + new technical
The Livestock Event, the UK’s leading livestock trade show is launching new features and in response to visitor demand is increasing the livestock presence at the 2014 event, to be held at The NEC, Birmingham on 2 and 3 July. In addition, it has launched a new state of the art website http://www.livestockevent.co.uk/ The National Dairy Show is expanding by 25% to 300 stall places ...
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