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Woodstream Corporation, a global manufacturer of animal control products including FiShock, Zareba and ElectroBraid brand of electronic containment systems that provide safe, economical alternatives to barbed wire fencing, introduces the industry's first self-drilling, screw-in polycarbonate insulator.
This new, aesthetically pleasing insulator can be installed within 10 seconds using a power tool.
If you read or watch much news – especially if it relates to the upcoming election – you have been getting a hefty dose of conflicting views and positions. But there are still some things that everyone should be able to agree on.
Consumer response from news reports about lean finely textured beef (LFTB) trimmings, dubbed “pink slime” by food critics, pushed the beef industry and its allies, including the USDA, into a high gear public information response.
But those campaigns may have started too late, as meat production plants using LFTB were forced to cut jobs and close some operations due to the public’s response.
It’s well known that many beef cattle living at high altitudes are afflicted with pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.
These animals are at risk of dying from congestive heart failure if they are not moved to lower altitudes and medically treated.
Applications for the fifth annual checkoff-funded National Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Awards are now being accepted. The National BQA Awards recognize four winners in the area of beef, dairy, marketing and education:
The beef and dairy awards recognize producers that best demonstrate animal care and handling principles as part of the day-to-day activities on their respective operations.
The BQA Educator Award is open to individuals or companies that provide high quality and innovative training to individuals that care and handle cattle throughout the industry chain.
The BQA Marketer Award is open to livestock markets, cattle buyers and supply-chain programs that promote BQA to their customers and offer them opportunities to get certified.
With 9 billion people expected on Earth within 40 years and the resulting pressure on food supplies and natural resources, agricultural researchers and educators will play a vital role in finding solutions, according to a top U.S. Department of Agriculture official.
All facets of grass-fed beef production will be featured at a conference hosted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service May 30-31 at Texas A&M University in College Station.
The Budweiser Clydesdales, the traditional symbol for Anheuser-Busch since 1933, are scheduled to be onsite at the upcoming 3i Show in Dodge City, Kansas, July 12 to 14.
The Cooperative Resources International (CRI) board of directors adopted a resolution acknowledging Argentine distributor Juan Debernardi for importing more than 1 million doses of CRI dairy and beef semen in 2011.
The achievement was the result of a 30-year relationship between the two organizations.
“Dr. Juan Debernardi and his staff began working with CRI predecessor Atlantic Breeders Cooperative in 1982. In that first year, they imported around 10,000 doses of semen,” notes Doug Wilson, CRI CEO.
Lean, finely textured beef “is meat” and a healthy form of protein, according to a Texas A&M University expert.
Dr. Russell Cross, head of the department of animal science at Texas A&M, said lean, finely textured beef is nutritious, and a production process he approved while serving as administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Food Safety Inspection Service in 1993.
“The simplest way to describe this is that it is meat, it’s beef,” he said. “The protein content is similar to what is ground in a steak. This product is no different than meat; that’s the reason USDA calls it meat.”
Cross said much misinformation has been reported and discussed in various media. That’s why it is important that the facts be told about the production of lean, finely textured beef, which comes from traditional carcass-harvesting-methods, he said.
Click here to listen to an audio interview with Dr. Russell Cross
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