Tag: USDA
Farm Babe: No, livestock aren’t destroying the planet – AGDAILY.COM
Farm Babe: No, livestock aren’t destroying the planet Source: http://www.agdaily.com/insights/farm-babe-no-livestock-arent-destroying-planet/ By Michelle Miller, Farm Babe http://www.farmbabe.org/ T... Read More
The Difference Between Antibiotics and Hormones – Ag on the Forefront
Source: http://www.agonthe4front.com/difference-in-antibiotics-hormones/ In conversations about animal care and welfare, antibiotics and hormones often get bundled together. They are often associated ... Read More
Worried About Hormones?
By Bruce Treffer, UNL Extension Educator All multi-cellular organisms contain hormones. Photo courtesy of Troy Walz. There are a lot of concerns and mixed messages about hormones in beef. There are a ... Read More
Western Canada Ranchers Fear Going ‘Broke by Spring’ as Disease Spreads – Reuters
By Reuters November 23, 2016 Ranchers in western Canada whose herds are under quarantine due to the spread of bovine tuberculosis told federal legislators on Tuesday that they desperately need to sell... Read More
Actually, Raising Beef Is Good for the Planet – Wall Street Journal
Despite environmentalists’ worries, cattle don’t guzzle water or cause hunger—and can help fight climate change Grasslands for cattle safeguard soil, water and land. Getty Images By Nicolette Ha... Read More
Antibiotics and Animals Raised for Food: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics – Food Safety News
BY DR. RICHARD RAYMOND From what I have been reading lately, it appears to me that the next big fight over agriculture’s ability to provide consumers with plentiful, safe and affordable meat and po... Read More
Scientists Rebuke Livestock Grazing Critics – This is Reno
source: http://thisisreno.com/2014/02/scientists-rebuke-livestock-grazing-critics/ BY BOB CONRAD Graduate student Sam Lossing in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources... Read More
Would Removing Beef from the Diet Actually Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Ashley Broocks, Emily Andreini, Megan Rolf, Ph.D., and Sara Place, Ph.D., Oklahoma State University This is a topic of discussion within the beef industry. The following article does not necessarily r... Read More