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Centenary Lurgan Show is launched in style
THE Centenary Lurgan Show was launched last week in the historic setting of Brownlow home, Lurgan.
8 May 2012, 5:23 am | click here to view more
ANTIBIOTICS GIVEN TO CATTLE FOR SAME REASONS AS HUMANS
In Part 2 of this series we will review the use of antibiotics in cattle, both therapeutic (injected and fed) and non-therapeutic (fed – used to address sickness or to improve animal performance), applications.
8 May 2012, 5:05 pm | click here to view more
IT'S THE PITTS -- BACKGROUND CHECK
We met at high noon, she was dressed completely in green from her pilates shoes to her forest green sweatband. She wore spandex leotards, an Audubon pin and a Sierra Club tee shirt with John Muir's face on it.
8 May 2012, 5:04 pm | click here to view more
HUNTIN' DAYLIGHT -- TWO SIDES OF CONSUMER RESPONSE
Consumers and the mainstream media are a fickle lot, sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad.
7 May 2012, 5:55 pm | click here to view more
USE CAUTION WHEN RESTOCKING AFTER DROUGHT
Experts with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service are advising beef cattle producers to use caution and strategic planning when thinking about restocking herds after drought.
7 May 2012, 5:54 pm | click here to view more
Mindrum farmer shows no sign of slowing down
A BEAUTIFUL place and good employers have helped a Borders tractorman stay working on the same farm for more than three decades.
29 Apr 2012, 2:16 am | click here to view more
Vane Lindsay
CRESTON -- Vane Lamar Lindsay, 68, died April 20, 2012, at his home in Creston.
26 Apr 2012, 2:05 pm | click here to view more
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Ringside at...Bishop's Castle Auction Mart, Shropshire. Judge Andrew Dalton (pictured left) chose six British Blue heifers from Victor Morris (centre) as his champion group at Thursday's (19 April) prize sale, watched over by Halls' chairman Peter Willcock (right).
25 Apr 2012, 7:15 am | click here to view more
PRODUCERS FACE SCRUTINY FROM PUBLIC OVER ANTIBIOTIC FEEDING
The use of antibiotics in food animal feeding has been a common practice for years. It has also been below flame from a variety of scientists, doctors, consumer groups and the media for years.
25 Apr 2012, 5:14 pm | click here to view more
BLACK INK -- FAMILIAR OR LOADED WORDS
By its simplest definition, a cliché is something you have heard before. Writers are taught to avoid using them unless it is with a twist or to “shine new light on” something previously unexplored or even imagined.
25 Apr 2012, 5:13 pm | click here to view more
Great British Beef Week: The essential role of local abattoirs
ALTHOUGH 75% of England’s agricultural land is grass, this is not true of East Anglia, which is predominantly arable and traditionally the nation’s bread basket. Some arable farms still have a few livestock on meadows close the home , but most of our cattle and sheep are kept in our beautiful river valleys, saltmarshes and flood meadows. These animals are important for the landscape, since it is ...
25 Apr 2012, 1:08 am | click here to view more
BLACK CREST FARMS HOSTS ANNUAL SALE
The Black Crest Farms Annual Sale was held February 11, 2012 in Sumter, S.C.
24 Apr 2012, 5:27 pm | click here to view more
IT'S THE PITTS -- OR SO I HEAR
I am one of the 10 percent of adult Americans who don't possess a cell phone. It's not that I think cell phones are the work of the devil, or that they aren't handy, it's just that I am far too busy listening to other people's conversations to have one of my possess.
24 Apr 2012, 5:25 pm | click here to view more
PROPER DEVELOPMENT LEADS TO PRODUCTIVE COWS
Finding common ground when it comes to developing the next generation of productive cows has always been a challenge for the beef industry.
23 Apr 2012, 5:35 pm | click here to view more
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HOOTER MCCORMICK...GULLY'S BAPTISM
If you've ever been a pallbearer, fighting to keep hold of your part of the precious cargo, lest your slip sets loose a chain reaction that ultimately upends the proverbial applecart, then you have some idea how desperate Thomas Terwilliger was becoming.
23 Apr 2012, 5:35 pm | click here to view more
Cattle keep Allan contented in his work
A BEAUTIFUL place and good employers have helped a Borders tractorman stay working on the same farm for more than three decades.
20 Apr 2012, 4:01 am | click here to view more
Destockers out in force at Colac
DRY weather continued to plague south-west Victoria this week, with numbers swelling to 1300 head at the monthly Colac store sale last Friday.
20 Apr 2012, 2:18 pm | click here to view more
CHECKOFF RELEASES BEEF TENDERNESS SURVEY
With funding from the beef checkoff, the industry has been tracking beef tenderness for 20 years with the first benchmarking survey conducted in 1990. In more recent surveys, foodservice cuts were added and a consumer sensory panel was substituted for previously used trained sensory panels because the consumer's perception of tenderness is the ultimate determinant of a clip's success.
2 May 2012, 4:57 pm | click here to view more
LIPSCOMB HONORED BY ALABAMA BCIA
The Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association recently honored William “Bill” Lipscomb as the 2011 Richard Deese Award recipient during their Annual Meeting and Awards Program held in conjunction with the 69th Annual Alabama Cattlemen's Association Convention in Huntsville on March 31st.
2 May 2012, 4:57 pm | click here to view more
Marvellous May sales are expected at Borderway Mart
As spring looms to an end, leading livestock auctioneers Harrison and Hetherington are seeing out the season with a finale of spring beef sales throughout the month of May.
2 May 2012, 2:48 am | click here to view more
Warrnambool cattle prices drop 5c/kg
VALUES dropped by up to five cents a kilogram across the board at the Warrnambool store sale on Friday.
2 May 2012, 2:11 pm | click here to view more
SENEPOL BULL TEST SALE TO BE HELD APRIL 21, 2012 IN BLADENBORO, NC
The Senepol Bull Test Sale will be held April 21, 2012 at HJ White Farm in Bladenboro, NC.
18 Apr 2012, 4:09 pm | click here to view more
CONSUMER DEMAND MORE COMPLICATED THAN EVER
Charting a course in the beef industry means acting on market signals and being ready for the reactions to those actions.
16 Apr 2012, 4:50 pm | click here to view more
Could France learn to love British beef?
There was no adore lost between French and British farmers in the wake of the BSE crisis. So why does Paris now seem to be falling for British beef?
15 May 2012, 8:07 pm | click here to view more
GROUND BEEF GETS A "RAW DEAL" IN MEDIA COVERAGE
A Mississippi State University meat scientist is describing recent media reports as irresponsible journalism that casts a shadow over established practices that make certain ground beef products healthier and safer.
14 May 2012, 5:14 pm | click here to view more
RECORD KEEPING DOES NOT HAVE TO BE HARD
As calf prices increase and more volatility comes to the input side of beef production, completing the task is more important than ever and some of the loopholes or shortcuts no longer exist when it comes to profitable beef production.
14 May 2012, 5:13 pm | click here to view more
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