LivestockEar and leg sensors and GPS collars on cows at 27 New Zealand dairy farms linked personality to output: curious cows gave 0.67 litres a day more milk and spent longer grazing and lying.
OpinionJahangirnagar University zoologist Ashish Dutta writes that 390 of 1,619 species assessed in Bangladesh's 2015 Red List are threatened and 31 are extinct in the country, and asks planners to weigh animals' needs in every road, dam and settlement.
LivestockOn World Animal Welfare Day, Chattogram Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said the city corporation and Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University will work jointly for animal welfare; the university launched an Animal Welfare Club.
LivestockUnder Dairy Farmers of Canada's proAction programme, daily exercise for tie-stall cows and social contact for calves from birth become mandatory on 1 April 2027, with more housing rules due in 2029 and 2031.
LivestockWorld Farmed Animals Day falls on 2 October; World Animal Protection says about 80 billion land animals are used in farming each year, a large share of them in industrial systems.
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.
LivestockThe first major update in over a decade requires twice-daily feeding of young calves and vet approval to move thin cows, and sends tethering and electrified backing gates towards regulation.
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.
AgrotechA camera-based, AI-controlled farrowing pen from WEDA and VetVise won the Gold DLG Innovation Award and the Animal Welfare Award at EuroTier 2026 by adjusting heating and feeding from sow and piglet behaviour.
LivestockKarl Stanley's family piggery near Ōpunake is adding a multi-million-dollar shed for 1,000 grower pigs and reworking its farrowing units to meet New Zealand welfare rules due by the end of 2035.
A training day at Taaibosch Piggery brought NSPCA inspectors, the pork producers' body SAPPO and vets together; group housing and batch traceability won ground, but farrowing crates and tail docking remain in dispute.
LivestockThe new welfare standards, part of a national plan to phase out conventional cages by 2036, now start in mid-2027, while caged-egg farmers vow to fight the phase-out.
WEDA's PigTail, a silver DLG Innovation Award winner at EuroTier 2026, photographs each pig's tail as it passes and alerts farmers to new injuries.
