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Briefs: Carbon and beef cattle; biosecurity and livestock

Reading Time: < 1 minute Carbon and beef cattle Every living thing contains carbon, and everything — including cattle, grasslands,and people — is part of the carbon cycle. Raising beef cattle can have both positiveand negative impacts on the carbon cycle and different management practicescan increase or decrease the sector’s carbon footprint. Learn more about howproduction systems stack up by […] Read more


“There’s still a lot of unknowns with that as we are working our way through the epidemiology and trying to understand how this transmission is occurring.” – Dr. Samantha Uhrig.

Beef sector braces for bird flu

Avian influenza strain may not affect beef cattle the same as dairy

Reading Time: 4 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – The strain of bird flu infecting U.S. dairy herds could become a problem for the beef sector, but it may not have the same effects as it did in the dairy barn, according to New Mexico’s state veterinarian. The main economic impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle has […] Read more