Tyson Foods announced it will urge its suppliers to implement a series of production practices that it deems representative of responsible food production. Those recommendations include the use of video monitoring in sow farms, ...
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By Lindsay Chichester, UNL Extension Educator Many ranches and farms spend a lot of time working on business plans, mission statements, employee training, goals, and financial management, but how many spend time discussing a disaster ...
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Can changes to a cow's energy intake during the second trimester enhance the quality of beef her offspring will produce? What effect might it have on the reproductive ability of the cow's offspring? Those are questions a team of SDSU ...
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Reducing feed bunk losses, zoonotic disease concerns and succession planning are the major topics that will be covered during the 2014 Dairy Cow College. Dairy Cow College is a joint educational effort of the North Dakota State University ...
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U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Monday that the United States was requesting China to enter into a consultation over Chinese duties on U.S. high-tech steel exports following a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute. In ...
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The International Collating Center, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following equine disease outbreaks for the third quarter* of 2013. Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis) was reported from Germany in ...
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Coal stocks at China's four major Bohai Sea ports totaled 16.645 million mt on Sunday, up 1.05 million mt or 6.7% week on week, Qinhuangdao Port said Monday. Coal stocks at Qinhuangdao Port rose 3.8% week on week to 5.815 million mt on ...
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RS Components (RS) has signed a global authorised distributor agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor. The agreement strengthens an existing collaboration between the two companies to deliver a portfolio of discrete semiconductor devices and ...
US coal production totaled about 18.8 million st in the week that ended Saturday, the Energy Information Administration said Thursday. The production estimate is 5.8% higher than the previous week's estimate and 2.1% higher than in the ...
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Iran exported 14.43 million tons of cement and clinker in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, beginning on March 21, which shows a 36.2 percent rise year on year, Tehran Times daily reported on Sunday. Exports of ...
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The North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine will be hosting two seminars-one for horse owners and one for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, and farriers-on Feb. 8-9. All proceeds will ...
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The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), an organization charged with increasing the value and profitability of the U.S. beef, pork and lamb industries by enhancing demand in international markets, strongly supports passage of legislation ...
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The chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development Committee reports an updated Code of Practice for the care and handling of pigs in Canada has been agreed to and is now ready for final editing and translation. The ...
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Australian wine industry "taking action" to lift profitability The peak industry body for Australian winemakers, the Winemakers' Federation of Australia (WFA) has released released an action plan to lift the profitability of Australian ...
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A new report on farmer perspectives on climate and agriculture, gathered in a 2012 survey of nearly 5,000 farmers from 11 Corn Belt states, presents survey results by watershed. "Farmer Perspectives on Agriculture and Weather Variability ...
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