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Posted on June 18, 2025
Can your bull be too fat to make babies? That was one topic talked about at this year’s CattleCon . Discussing bull reproductive health were Saulo Menegatti Zoca, DVM, Extension beef cattle specialist in reproductive management with University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, and Pedro L.P. ...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on June 18, 2025
Alpha-gal symptoms & the mammalian connection Sharon Forsyth, founder of Alpha-gal Alliance, wants people dealing with alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), also known as the “red meat allergy,” to have all the information they need to help manage symptoms. AGS is an allergy to mammal meat and mammal products r...
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Posted on June 18, 2025
According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune ( nola.com ), “A large Saharan dust plume will soon blanket Gulf Coast.” That was the headline on June 6. The brown haze over the central and western Caribbean is a Saharan dust outbreak that left the African coast on May 21 and was forecast to reach the G...
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Enrico Villamaino 
Posted on June 11, 2025
Dairy industry leaders were offered a deep dive into dairy dynamics, market maneuvers, milk metrics and the intricate interplay of supply and demand at the “Mid-Year Dairy Market Review,” presented by Mike McCully of McCully Consulting during the 2025 International Dairy, Deli & Bakery Association (...
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Sonja Heyck-Merlin 
Posted on June 11, 2025
According to Gustavo Schuenemann, the success of a dairy farm’s replacement program comes down to calves’ first 60 days of life. Schuenemann is a dairy cattle Extension specialist and veterinarian at Ohio State. If the quantitative goal is to at least double the calves’ body weight in 60 days, which...
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jkarkwren 
Posted on June 11, 2025
We just hit the two-year anniversary of the runaway Canadian wildfire smoke epidemic, the one engulfing America’s northern states in early June 2023. At that time, ABC Online news headlined “Canadian wildfire smoke live updates: Air quality alerts issued for 13 states.” Canadian officials said firef...
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Kelsi Devolve 
Posted on June 4, 2025
Each year, the New England Green Pastures Program recognizes a dairy farm in each of the New England states. In spring, farms are nominated for this prestigious award and judged on many factors: herd management, milk production and animal performance, business management, crop management, forage qua...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on June 4, 2025
As breeding season for spring calving approaches, cattle producers should understand the reasons a beef cow might not maintain a pregnancy that results in a healthy calf. “Investigating the cause of conception failure and pregnancy losses can be a frustrating pursuit,” said University of Georgia vet...
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Courtney Llewellyn 
Posted on June 4, 2025
Acute interstitial pneumonia (AIP) is a respiratory disease characterized by lung inflammation, edema and emphysema in cattle. According to Josh Szasz, DVM, with Five Rivers Cattle Feeding , it primarily used to describe a sporadic respiratory disease. Recognized as a health issue for quite a long t...
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