LivestockThe finding could help explain why females mate only once and may one day improve the sterile-fly technique used to fight the livestock pest, now back in Mexico and Texas.
LivestockThe Agricultural Research Council will let qualifying manufacturers make its FMD vaccine under licence to add capacity, but procurement, regulatory and biosafety steps must come first.
LivestockFifty-four anthrax patients were found in Daulatpur upazila in August and September, with cattle infected in villages across its 14 unions; the livestock department is vaccinating animals.
LivestockBecause traceability must run from birth, only cattle born after Brazil fixes its antimicrobial controls could supply the EU; the bloc suspended Brazilian animal products on 3 September.
LivestockAn MLA demonstration that followed more than 3,500 bulls around Esperance backed what the Fowler family had seen: vaccinated young bulls break down far less often in their first joining.
LivestockJBS now pre-vaccinates all Angus cattle entering its five yards, and MLA says bovine respiratory disease deaths are down 50% even as cattle on feed rose by half.
LivestockNational Fallen Stock Company data show Devon up 310% and Somerset 228% in August, as BTV-3 is confirmed on 2,124 premises in Great Britain this season.
LivestockAustralian Eggs' Rowan McMonnies told BeefEx that eggs lifted community trust from 56% to about 68-69% by listening, not fighting, and urged lotfeeders to do the same before investing in covered housing.
LivestockWith lamb above $12/kg, breeders expect sheep farmers to keep investing in genetics; rams averaged $1,864 at auction last summer and some studs about $3,000.
AgribusinessHamilton-based Dairy Goat Co-operative has partnered with US agribusiness investor AGR Partners for long-term growth capital, while its farmers keep 100 percent ownership.
LivestockA South African poultry specialist says new producers who jump into broilers for quick money fail when they have no market; feed, cash flow and house design decide the rest.
At Laharhat in Barishal Sadar, cattle graze all day on a char of the Bukhainagar river and swim back against the current in the afternoon, guided by farmers in boats; ten photographs by Saiyan.
At least 53 people in Rangpur, Dinajpur and Gaibandha, 37 of them in Sundarganj, have been treated for anthrax symptoms in a month after sick cattle were slaughtered and their meat shared.
