Cattle

From the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), on or around Nov. 3, 2010, Eastern Livestock Company, LLC, (Eastern) began issuing unfunded checks to producers for livestock purchased by Eastern in different markets. Eastern is headquartered in New Albany, Ind., and according to USDA,…

Excerpted from an interesting 2007 paper by several authors from the University of Sydney, Charles Sturt University and James Cook University in Australia China had only 71.68 million cattle (including buffalo) in 1980. This total reached 141.58 million in 2005. The number of slaughtered animals reached 52.88 million in 2005,…

Temple Grandin lectures on how distractions, lighting and shadows can cause livestock to balk and refuse to move through races, cattle chutes, and corrals. If you have problems seeing the video below click HERE. youtube::r9ZM9DaMv-w::

Today’s blog entry is by Kyle Stutt from the Noble Foundation and first appeared in the Cattle Today e-newsletter. With the end of the spring breeding season coming to a close, it’s time to start planning the next step for the cows in your herd pregnancy evaluation. Pregnancy evaluation in…