LivestockA Supreme Court lawyer has given the government 15 days to lift the ban on importing live cattle and certified halal frozen beef and to rationalise duties, arguing that beef now selling at Tk 780-850 a kilo could fall to Tk 250.
LivestockAt the Royal Show's new Technology & Education Hub, Mangosuthu University of Technology described how artificial insemination, oestrus synchronisation and record-keeping are helping 33 communal farmers at Rietsdale improve their herds.
LivestockA Red Meat Industry Services adviser in South Africa sets out the everyday habits that keep cattle healthy: early disease detection, feeding and clean water, timed deworming and vaccination, quarantine and daily records.
LivestockAgriculture Minister Willie Aucamp says the three countries must fight foot-and-mouth disease together, as South Africa ships vaccines to neighbours and waits on Botswana over biosecurity protocols for red meat imports.
LivestockDiggers to Stockman, set up by army veteran and cattleman Jack Blaine, gave ex-soldiers a pilot tour of northern cattle work from pasture management to the abattoir.
LivestockUS Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has written to every rancher with a grazing permit on Forest Service allotments, urging them to use a June directive that aims to restore 500,000 head months of grazing.
LivestockWith El Niño expected to bring below-normal rainfall and heat to South Africa's 2026/27 summer, livestock advisers urge farmers to match breeding to grazing, check bull fertility and body condition, and vaccinate well before mating.
LivestockAgscent has launched in the UK with a system that pairs methane sensors with in-paddock weighing, so farmers can see which cattle turn feed into weight most efficiently as drought squeezes grass and forage.
AgrotechSensor ear tags from Merck, 701x and Ceres Tag alert cow-calf producers to heat, calving and health problems; an Iowa couple say the system helped them breed more cows this year.
LivestockThe Norwegian livestock tech company's solar-powered cattle collars will warn farmers when a cow is calving and map how hard each pasture is grazed, as it grows in the US and doubles its warranty to ten years.
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.
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.
