:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/RollingCornField-WideShot-2000-aa5c4c2f8a3445508a65afa24a08ff91.jpg "Report: Corn Belt farmland ROI average above 12% in recent years")
Browsing: Livestock
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/piglets-01032b9934904b7a888a6c426a1ce481.jpg "California officials explain Prop 12 requirements for pork farmers")
Pork producers may need to adjust housing protocols for breeding pigs to retain access to the California consumer market. In…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/cattle-1-347eccca3da34395adb3f46bef8337ab.jpg "Family farmer, animal rights groups stick a fork in U.S. Sen. Marshall’s EATS legislation")
TOPEKA — Independent cattle ranchers as well as family dairy and poultry farmers joined animal rights groups in opposition of…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Bloomberg20Creative-1257164002-170667a-2-3294067c2b69485bbec02954b832ea04.jpg "Massachusetts animal welfare law is delayed again")
With a lawsuit still unresolved, Massachusetts officials agreed in court to wait until Aug. 23 to enforce a state law…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Richard20Levine_526663240-2000-cac93a02fb9d455f8612db1e4a9495ea.jpg "With a second beef plant, Walmart raises concerns about vertical integration in cattle markets")
Last month Walmart announced plans to open a plant in Olathe, Kansas, that will turn large cuts of beef into…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/102055443-99b192133e374b4594bfc3f9d8e061d8.jpg "Groups work to keep the bacon in breakfast for New England consumers")
The U.S. pork and food service industry recently received an extension to iron out details with Massachusetts officials over implementing…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/cattle20in20field-2fc6187627fa4f1f84db36cec76286db.jpg "Missouri’s drought ridden pastures have farmers selling cattle")
With 58% of Missouri pastures in deplorable condition, cattle producers are culling heifers and monitoring their pastures. “Cattle producers are…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/PainterSisters-fb26240fb4bd4650a04bbb17c0c19319.jpeg "Pennsylvania’s Painterland Sisters are farming with the future in mind")
By Cassie Miller In the rolling hills of Tioga County, sisters Hayley and Stephanie Painter, of Painterland Farms, are determined…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/10_22_18_RohrbachGrasslands_023-2-2000-d3866d479904489f8ddbd5bd62b64f14.jpg "Texas has poor pasture conditions; cattlemen remain hopeful for rain")
About 70% of Texas pasture is in poor condition, according to USDA, but cattle producers are hanging in through the…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/SheepSolar-5b02acf3ddc34a19a71601b151c0cd75.png "‘Solar grazing’ is a way for farmers and solar companies to use land. But there are challenges")
By Izzy Ross Along busy M-72 in Traverse City, Michigan, rows of huge solar panels gleam in the sun, and…
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/DSC_0745-4b4cd433ac1c4348b63f53ff40ad9450.JPG "Pa. cleared to resume normal poultry trade following HI-PATH outbreak")
By Cassie Miller After more than a year of combating an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, afflicting poultry farms across…