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Baytril® 100 (enrofloxacin) injectable, manufactured by Bayer Animal Health, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of Mycoplasma bovis – a major pathogen for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) that has a significant health and economic impact on cattle operations across the country.
“Mycoplasma bovis is often overlooked, but can be a very opportunistic and damaging pathogen,” said Dr. Fiona Maunsell of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida.
I was reminiscing with a group of Dexter breeders. A Michigan farmer named Lew said when he was a boy, his grandpa hired a mule man to clear some timber. It was raining like a cow pouring hot tea on a flat rock!
The mule man sat in his old Chevy coupe with his arm out the window holding onto his harnessed log-skipping mules, Bob and Jim.
COLLEGE STATION – The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense at Texas A&M University announced today that Melissa Hefferin Berquist has become assistant director.
EDINBURG – While the vast majority of Texans would give an eyetooth for a good dose of tropical rainfall, cotton producers in South Texas don’t want any part of it, experts say.
“If cotton growers here could wave a magic wand, they’d push that rain to our north, away from the Lower Rio Grande Valley” said Brad Cowan, Texas AgriLife Extension Service agent in Hidalgo County.
St. Joseph, Missouri — Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) has a strong foundation of innovative biological and pharmaceutical research and development, manufacturing and technical service. And, the company takes pride in keeping those service operations close at hand in facilities that are owned and operated in the United States by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Corn leaves are rolling. Soybean leaves are flipping. Crop plants go into a defensive mode against the sun and heat.
“For crops, the drought threat is serious,” says Bill Wiebold, University of Missouri Extension agronomist. “Yields drop. Plants die.
COLUMBIA, Missouri – Adding value to beef goes beyond adding pounds to calves, says a beef meat marketing authority. Producers must listen to the consumer’s demand for eating quality.
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that a high demand for guaranteed farm ownership and direct farm operating funds has prompted USDA to transfer appropriated funds between programs as authorized by law, to meet the urgent credit needs of producers, including beginning and minority farmers and ranchers.
BAYTOWN – A Texas Watershed Steward workshop addressing water quality issues related to the Cedar Bayou watershed will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Aug. 30 at the Baytown Community Center, 2407 Market St. in Baytown.
AMARILLO – With 2011 going into the record books as one of the driest in the High Plains, many dryland wheat acres were abandoned and irrigated yields suffered as producers had to allocate water to other crops, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomist.
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