Reading Time: 4 minutes If you want expert advice on biosecurity, talk to a Canadian hog farmer — and cattle producers should probably do just that. The country’s outstanding record on controlling the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has a host of lessons for the cattle sector, says a swine veterinarian who was deeply involved in Alberta’s battle against PEDv. […] Read more
How the pork sector survived the attack of a killer virus
PEDv decimated the U.S. hog herd, but Canada showed how to do biosecurity right
JBS doesn’t see Brazil beef exports to U.S. before 2016
Sao Paulo | Reuters — Meatpacker JBS expects fresh beef exports from Brazil to the U.S. to begin no earlier than 2016, later than the Brazilian government predicted, CEO Wesley Batista said Friday. An agreement between the two countries was signed in June, when Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visited Washington, but Batista said it would […] Read more
U.S. establishes roundtable for sustainable beef
All of the major players in the value chain are on board with the effort to measure and improve sustainability of American beef
Reading Time: < 1 minute The U.S. is the latest country to set up a roundtable for sustainable beef. The group has more than three dozen founding members, largely drawn from the beef value chain. That includes more than a dozen cattle organizations; major processors (including Cargill and JBS) and beef buyers (McDonald’s, Costco, and Walmart); and other industry players […] Read more
‘Breeding to feeding’ builds better dairy bulls
Crossbred Jersey-Limousins could be the answer to rebuilding North America’s cattle herd
Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta dairy producers may favour Holsteins on their farms, but down in the heart of America’s Midwest, Jerry Wulf milks around 30,000 “smaller, more efficient” Jersey cows — over half of his total dairy herd. But Jerseys have just one problem, he said. “That stray Jersey bull calf that she was raising was a liability, […] Read more
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