LivestockThe June 2026 agricultural census counted 1.67 million cattle, up 0.7%, and more pigs, but sheep and poultry fell, soft fruit hit a ten-year low and spring barley shrank.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report says EU cattle slaughter fell 3.851% in the first half of 2026, but summer heat and drought are expected to speed up culling before a further decline in 2027.
LivestockAfter a $7 million investment earlier this year, the NSW Government's new plan drops the old reliance on self-reporting and divides the state into high, medium and low-risk areas for cattle tick.
LivestockFarmers and traders from neighbouring districts come to Bhangura's Sharatnagar market on Saturdays and Wednesdays for local cattle, buffalo, goats and sheep; cattle once came by boat on the Baral, now by minitruck and pickup.
LivestockA working group recommends building on existing manifests and brand inspection, linked to the national system, rather than a new scheme, to cut disease and market risk.
LivestockA mobile court in Sundarganj, Gaibandha fined a cattle owner Tk 10,000 for slaughtering a sick cow and six butchers for slaughtering without a livestock certificate; the seized meat was buried.
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.
LivestockAt BeefEx 2026, North American cattle feeder Kee Jim said Australia could meet US animal-health standards and the economics work, yet US authorities say there is no import protocol.
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
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced the Stand-Up Program, up to $50 million to help states start or expand state meat and poultry inspection in partnership with FSIS, so that more small processors are inspected and ranchers have somewhere to process close to home; cattle producers wel
Remote drug delivery by dart is spreading among western Canadian cattle producers as a way to treat a sick or injured animal without a chute, but Manitoba Agriculture and veterinarians say it suits only some cases, few drugs and trained hands.
LivestockA farm in Mirsarai, Chattogram, that started with five cows in 2012 held more than 300 cattle and about 500 animals in all in July 2026, and sold more than 200 cattle and buffaloes at that year's Eid ul-Adha.
Flooding in about 28 unions of Moulvibazar has destroyed grass and fodder, leaving many cattle sick and their owners unable even to sell them cheaply.
