EPA Feedlot Rules Under Review
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will address the concerns of farm interests before making final some rules that the Clinton administration proposed to control runoff from feedlots,...
View ArticleUSDA in Case Against Packing Co.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A battle is taking shape over whether a meatpacking company broke the law when it quit buying cattle from a feedlot after one of its managers criticized the packer in a livestock...
View ArticleCanada Says Quarantines Feed Lot in Mad Cow Probe
OTTAWA (Reuters) - One Canadian feed lot has been quarantined amid a probe tracing back the origins of mad cow disease diagnosed in one sick cow in Canada, George Luterbach of the Canadian Food...
View ArticlePersonal struggles abound as mad cow crisis drags into second month
PICTURE BUTTE, Alta. (CP) -- Nicki Murray was raised to accept adversity as a normal part of life in the cattle industry. But nothing prepared her for the mad cow...
View ArticleKansas struggling to meet USDA testing target
WICHITA, Kan. -- Days after the federal Agriculture Department unveiled its plan for expanded surveillance for mad cow disease, Kansas officials say they're scrambling to figure out how to find and...
View ArticleKansas struggles to test for mad cow
WICHITA, Kan. -- Days after the federal Agriculture Department unveiled its plan for expanded surveillance for mad cow disease, Kansas officials say they're scrambling to figure out how to find and...
View ArticleSunnyside buying feedlot to rid town of aroma
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. -- Sunnyside residents hope for a sweeter-smelling future now that the city is buying out a feedlot that helped give the community the nickname "Smellyside." The Sunnyside City...
View ArticleSunnyside breathes easier with feedlot's move out of town
SUNNYSIDE, Wash. -- Now that a feedlot is moving out of this south-central Washington city, residents are beginning to smell the sweet aroma of crops rather than cattle. "When somebody's cutting mint...
View ArticleResearchers Seeks Ways to Cut Manure Smell
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View ArticleVegetative treatment systems tested: New answer for feedlot runoff
BY BILL HORD WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN - Lush grass fields are replacing wastewater-filled holding ponds as a means of managing rainwater runoff from small cattle feeding pens in Nebraska. The same...
View ArticleHefty grain prices cull feedlot herd
HIGH grain prices, the strong dollar and a very warm year in Japan have resulted in an unprecedented fall in the number of cattle on feed, with only half Australia's feedlot capacity now being...
View ArticleGroup Creates $5,000 Reward Program As Alberta Horse Cruelty Charges Laid
EDMONTON, March 13 /CNW/ - With the news that cruelty charges have been laid in the case of the starvation deaths of some 30 horses on a farm near Andrew, Alberta, the Canadian Horse...
View ArticleIs a giant packer a healthy idea?: Beef producers split on unprecedented...
BY BILL HORD WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN - Cattlemen throughout the United States are concerned about the implications of a supersized merger of packing companies. Less than a year after buying Swift...
View ArticleGrain prices eat away at beef producers' profits
With barbecue season just around the corner, many Calgarians are looking forward to throwing a slab of Alberta beef on the grill. But out near Strathmore, feedlot owner Stuart Thiessen is chewing over...
View ArticleBUSINESS: Cowboys find niche market for locally raised beef
CARBONDALE, Colo. (Map, News) - The Jacober brothers have a beef, of sorts, with the standard practices of the cattle business. The thought of eating steak, roast and hamburger coming from cows raised...
View ArticleWorld food prices endanger grass-fed Argentinian beef
For 100 years, cattle breeders refined their beef on the vast Argentine grasslands. With the help of mild winters, regular rainfall and fertile soil, ranchers grazed top-notch British breeds like...
View ArticleEPA curbs factory farm pollution
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Brad Nading via AP Cattle begin to line up at a feeding trough in Kansas. By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection...
View ArticleLive animals get protection
CONSUMERS in Bahrain will no longer be allowed to transport live sheep in the boot of their car, as part of new rules to improve the welfare of animals. The Bahrain Livestock Company has introduced...
View ArticleWash. farmers fight proposed 30K-head feedlot
Click photo to enlargeBrothers Blaine and Jeff Dougherty flip through old photos of their dryland wheat farm near Eltopia, Wash. on Nov. 22, 2008, as they talk about their grandfather buying the land...
View ArticleSheep sellers will have no more truck with cars
THERE should be no more Bahrainis throwing trussed Australian sheep into the boots of their Mercedes before next month's Eid al-Adha religious festival. Locals are being greeted for the first time...
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