Technology can be a wonderful thing...especially when it works!  One technology is accelerometers.  They measure acceleration such as when a smartphone switches orientation from portrait to landscape, depending on how it's tilted, or a car's airbag inflates when it senses collision forces...

Phil Griebel, DVM, PhD, presented research results suggesting vaccinating newborn calves, using a modified live, intranasal vaccine, can provide protection against pathogens causing bovine respiratory disease later in life.Griebel is a research fellow at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease...

Last week Travis and I presented to the Monroe County Cattlemen's Association.  It was a great meeting.  Part of the program included safely handling cattle and designs of cattle handling facilities.  Although many may feel that right now is not the time to spend money on facilities...

Hello all,I was reading Feedstuffs and came across this article.  Thus the following information is taken from their site." The mandatory country-of-origin labeling rule for meat has yet to provide observed demand increases, but has resulted in increased costs which have had an adverse...

The nation's farms should prepare to see lower net cash and net income for 2015 if projections from USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) prove true. ERS is forecasting that net cash income for U.S. farms is expected to fall by 27.7 percent in 2015 while net farm income is expected to drop by...

Hello all,It's a new year and I hope you had a wonderful holiday season.  Due to the hectic holiday season and breeding schedule at DSAC I haven't posted much since December, but that doesn't mean there aren't many issues for cattlemen.  I came across this article from...

I was reading several articles, trying to catch up and found this very interesting article (it was on the Drovers website).  This is what the article said: "We're feeding the world" is a mantra often used by those involved in farming and food to build support for modern food production...

I enjoy reading Feedstuffs articles and came across this one that you might be interested in.  It was originally published on line here. DURING the recent Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver,...