The cropping season is behind us for another year, and the meeting season officially kicked off for me the last week of November, first with a brief stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Farm Management Canada’s Agriculture Excellence Conference, and then on to Vancouver for the British Columbia Dairy Industry Conference.

Merck announced on Dec. 14 that it will be acquiring privately held company Antelliq – the corporate brand for Allflex. Antelliq will be a wholly owned and separately operated subsidiary within the Merck Animal Health Division.

As the pressure to use fewer antibiotics continues to grow, animal agriculture needs to be inventive and find different solutions to treat animals or keep livestock healthy from the start.

With an equal balance of men and women in the workplace, it’s important for men and women to learn to understand each other and work better together. Whether working on a farm, in a plant or in an office, gender differences are everywhere.

Introducing SenseTime remote monitoring system to beef industry

The U.S. ag community can breathe a small sigh of relief, the 2018 Farm Bill has received approval from both the House and the Senate, and only lacks the president’s signature before it is ready to go into action.

The latest meat trade data shows that meat exports are continuing to help offset record meat production in 2018. Each of the major meats – beef, pork and poultry – is projected to reach record levels in 2018 and will combine to push total U.S meat production to a record level of 102.3 billion pounds, up 2.6 percent year over year.

Every November, when the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is held in Toronto, Ontario, it’s like Christmas comes early for dairy enthusiasts. It is a great opportunity to see some of North America’s best dairy cows and celebrate the agriculture industry with the public. The 10-day event welcomes more than 30,000 people, which includes visitors from all over the world.

Progressive Cattleman readers love practical Christmas gifts. In a recent online poll, Progressive Cattleman asked, “What is the best kind of Christmas present?”

McDonald’s recently announced that they will be enacting a policy change to reduce the use of medically important antibiotics, which according to their news release, applies across 85 percent of their global beef supply chain.