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The government shutdown has put a damper on current U.S. trade negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
The South Dakota Rancher Relief Fund was established on Oct. 8 by Black Hills Area Community Foundation (BHACF) to provide support and relief assistance to those in the agriculture industry impacted by the blizzard of Oct. 4-7, 2013.
The Oct. 4-5 blizzard in western South Dakota created deadly conditions for cattle in affected areas. Reports of cow and calf death losses, along with displacements of herds due to drifting over of fencelines are still coming in. But thus far the total number of dead cattle has reached tens of thousands.
The South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA) reminds producers who have lost livestock during the recent blizzard to document losses. Proper documentation is critical to ensure processing of potential claims.
AgChat Foundation is partnering with several groups in an effort to bring emergency relief to ranchers affected by winter storm Atlas. Its goal: to raise $500,000.
The high death loss from the early October blizzard, or Atlas winter storm, in South Dakota has producers and the public wondering “How could this happen?” We tend to think about winter storms, extreme cold and other stressful conditions that cattle, horses and sheep on western range often successfully cope with and ask “Why was this storm so much worse?”
Eric Grant is public relations director with the American Angus Association.
This summer the American Angus Association announced new policies surrounding the genetic defect known as developmental duplication.
The simple recessive defect, researched by Dr. Jon Beever from University of Illinois, had been shown to result in calves born with polymelia, or a calf with additional limbs. However, those births were “rare events” given the greater rate of embryonic death.
Progressive Cattleman Editor David Cooper asked Eric Grant some follow-up questions about DD.
