LivestockA new Meat Standards Australia pathway lets cattle travelling up to 120 hours by road or rail stay eligible for grading, after MLA-funded research found no loss of eating quality.
LivestockThe Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society's new Dairy Beef Index combines calving, growth and carcass traits into a profit-per-calf figure for dairy farmers choosing Angus bulls.
The Eastern Cape agriculture department has handed a R1.4 million shed with a dipping tank to 48 communal wool farmers at Ngonyama Village, along with 10 Dohne Merino rams.
LivestockThe liquidator is reclaiming payments made to 96 farmers, feed companies, quarantine properties and the Irish broker Purcell before the May 2022 Ocean Ute shipment to China; a handful of farmers are settling at a discount.
LivestockMLA's September projections put 2026 slaughter at 9.6 million head, carcase weights at 313 kg and exports near 2.4 million tonnes, with the herd easing more slowly than forecast from 30.8 million head; live exports are down 25 percent.
LivestockWith vineyards and orchards on the Heretaunga Plains being returned to pasture, landowners are eyeing lambs and Friesian bull calves; store lambs peaked above $6/kg liveweight in June and ewes with lambs at foot are $20 a head up on last year.
LivestockGovernor Abigail Spanberger's Executive Order 21 grants over-width waivers for hay haulage from 1 October, opens emergency funding and activates price-gouging protection after Extension put statewide hay yields down 35 percent.
LivestockUSDA FAS forecasts Philippine chicken consumption at 2.7 million tonnes in 2027, driven by population growth, prices well below pork after African swine fever, and fast-growing chicken chains.
LivestockUSDA and the Texas Animal Health Commission released another New World screwworm zone on 21 September; the Santa Teresa port reopens to Mexican cattle on 24 September.
CropsA Penn State study of short-stature hybrids in no-till, manure-fed silage systems found dense stands in 15-inch rows suppressed burcucumber, cocklebur and Palmer amaranth without hurting forage quality.
LivestockDAFM confirmed the first ovine BTV-3 detection on 21 September; more than 11,000 animals have been antibody-tested this year, 5.7 million vaccine doses licensed for import, and Britain has passed 1,500 cases this season.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report says integrators' expansion, better genetics and automation drive the growth, with hog production still recovering from African swine fever and a strong El Niño the main risk.
LivestockResidents of Radhaganj bazar in Narsingdi's Raipura upazila detained a cattle owner and a meat trader on Monday over the slaughter and sale of a cow said to have rabies; the upazila livestock officer says the owner had been told to isolate the animal and not sell it, and whether anyone who ate the m
