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Cattlemen’s Profit Roundup to focus on value, making the grade

The Cattlemen’s Profit Roundup will once again take place at the 53rd Annual American Gelbvieh Association Convention held November 29-December 1, in Omaha, Nebraska. This year’s event will focus on the importance of end-product quality to ensure Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle continue to deliver the value and make the grade. This year’s symposium will be […]

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Medgene, USDA to develop two FAD platform vaccines

Important cooperative agreements were recently signed between the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Medgene, an animal health company that produces highly-targeted platform vaccines. The agreements are designed to apply Medgene’s proprietary platform vaccine technologies against two well-known foreign animal diseases: Nipah Virus and Rift Valley Fever. In the case of Nipah Virus, a highly fatal […]

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Study finds U.S. feral hog population can be managed

Recent conservation efforts have proven effective at controlling wild pig populations in the Southeastern United States, according to new research from the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Within 24 months of the start of control efforts in the study area located around the Savannah River […]

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Stockyard’s school education program recognised with community hero award

Stockyard Beef’s Molly Sage accepting the community hero award with ALFA president Barb Madden and Jordan Minniecon from Lallemand, who sponsored this year’s award. AN education program run by Southern Queensland’s Stockyard Beef has been awarded the Australian Lot Feeders’ Association’s Community Heroes Award at a dinner in Tamworth last night to kick off the […]

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