Ensuring livestock health is vital not only for animal welfare, but also for the efficient and profitable operation of farms. It contributes to limiting some of the environmental impacts of livestock ...

Every five years Congress passes legislation that sets national policy on agriculture, nutrition, conservation and forestry. The first real farm bill was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, part ...

Texas A&M professor shares 8 common stressors that can weaken an animal’s defenses, enabling bacteria to reach the lungs and ...

Broadcast version by Roz Brown for New Mexico News Connection reporting for the Sentient-Public News Service Collaboration It's a well-known fact that factory farms rely on antibiotics to treat ...

Livestock guardian dogs are responsible for keeping farm animals safe and predators away, and they take their jobs very ...

Research to help reduce inflammation in the uterus of livestock animals could help pave the way for developing new drugs to ...

Dr Joseph Mugacha attends to one of the dogs named 'Sharon' at the clinic in Runda, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] In Kenya, the majority of livestock farmers only call a Veterinarian when their ...

San Antonio, Texas, native Allison Throckmorton, 8, shows off her sheep, Tornado, after competing at the American Royal. Thousands of competitors come to the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas ...

People in the livestock industry offer multiple reasons why North Dakota has fallen behind, with anti-corporate farming laws, a lack of ag processing, restrictive ordinances and the 'stigma' of ...

Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned. Industrialized farming is often thought to reduce the risk of zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from ...

Combined with globalized trade, the overall rise in temperatures driven by human-induced climate change has allowed insects ...