A herd can pass statutory skin tests and regain TB-free status while still carrying infection, and vets in Britain are looking at combining test histories to flag higher-risk cattle rather than simply culling more.
EnvironmentAgriculture minister Martin Heydon will ask the European Commission to let farmers who need forage from land set aside for wintering geese and swans use it for their own livestock without losing ACRES payments.
LivestockA USDA Economic Research Service study finds revenues at rural veterinary practices that treat food animals fell about 22% between 2021 and 2025, deepening shortages in cattle country.
LivestockFazlur Rahman of Darugram, Kusumbi, keeps ducks on one side of a 24-decimal pond and fish on the other, and grazes the flock on harvested rice fields to save on feed.
LivestockWith his three children settled in other careers, Roundup rancher Bill Milton is looking for a young outsider to help run the family ranch and earn equity in it, an approach he says agriculture needs more widely.
LivestockAgriSearch says DAERA has likely underestimated what herd breakdowns cost farmers and needs up-to-date badger numbers, as a consultation on culling, test-vaccinate-or-remove and vaccination is extended to 9 October.
LivestockThe Senate Agriculture Committee left Proposition 12 out of its farm bill, but the National Pork Producers Council says the House bill's provision could survive when the two versions are merged in conference.
The Barnard family brought Savanna goats to their Thabazimbi farm to control bush encroachment and now breed them as a registered stud, without losing an animal to tick-borne disease.
LivestockNoble Premium Bison and the National Circle for Indigenous Agriculture and Food have signed a multi-year agreement to bring more Indigenous producers into every stage of Canada's bison trade.
LivestockAfter Brittany Ferries left the live export trade, the European Commission says securing sea links for calves is up to the Irish government, and offers to help.
LivestockState officials found the virus behind epizootic hemorrhagic disease in non-lactating dairy cattle and urge herd owners to involve vets because its lesions can mimic foreign animal diseases.
LivestockJeremiah Jotham built Basadi Agribusiness around a leased abattoir, adding rabbit production and spinach and kale that use its water and by-products.
LivestockThe Boston start-up is developing a vaccine that trains a cow's immune system to curb the rumen microbes that make methane, and aims to sell its first product in New Zealand from 2028.
