Saturday, February 11, 2012
Click here for RSS feedNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- There's reason for optimism down on the farm, providing that's a beef cattle operation in Tennessee or Kentucky. The mid-South states are the center of cow-calf beef production east of the Mississippi River. Kentucky ranks eighth nationally and Tennessee is ninth. ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 8:25 AM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- The Arkansas Department of Health says a bull that died near Everton in northwestern Arkansas this week had rabies. A department news release on Friday says cases of rabies in cattle are rare. It says the last confirmed case was a cow that died in 2007 in Hempstead Count ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 2:56 PM
By Wallowa County Chieftain EMMETT, Idaho -- An Idaho hunter who apparently didn't realize his wolf tag was no longer valid shot and killed a collared male wolf from northeast Oregon's Imnaha Pack. The man was hunting for coyotes Jan. 2 when he spotted the wolf north of Emmett, near a cattle f ...
Friday, February 10, 2012 2:35 PM
A farmworker advocacy group wants to end the federal H-2A guestworker program for sheepherders, a move that threatens the U.S. sheep industry, a representative of the Western Range Association says. Washington, D.C.-based Farmworker Justice has targeted the sheep industry's H-2A exemption, which ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
Ranchers risk losing their independence unless they keep pressing for stronger oversight of meat packers, according to a former USDA official who recently resigned after losing a battle over livestock industry reforms. Cattle producers are subject to the same forces as the packer-dominated hog an ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:00 AM
MOXEE, Wash. -- Members of the Martinez family have raised sheep in Central Washington for about 75 years and sometimes wonder how long they will be able to continue. Like sheep ranchers across the West, they face many challenges. Declining grazing leases, hiring sheepherders through cumbersome H-2 ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
ORLAND, Calif. -- University of California researchers are making headway in their efforts to help ranchers fight two invasive weeds that take over pastures -- and that livestock won't eat. A tropical grass called smutgrass has been cropping up in irrigated pastures in the Sacramento Valley, and ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:00 PM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Cy Holcomb and Nick Williams don't have a thousand bucks in their pockets. So when the Douglas County Livestock Association announced late last year it was beginning a new program -- giving a couple of heifers to area youths -- Cy and Nick were two of several teenagers who submi ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Pacific Northwest ranchers are experiencing one of the driest winters on record. With the exception of a week of rain in January that soaked part of the region, they've enjoyed many blue-sky days with temperatures several degrees higher than what has been normal during past wint ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:00 PM
PASCO, Wash. -- Alfalfa growers can significantly boost their income by planting new varieties, a Washington State University Extension forage specialist says. "I don't think growers are aware of how large differences can be," Steve Norberg, regional forage specialist based in Pasco, told Capital ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
SALEM -- The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee has passed a bill providing a refundable tax credit for livestock owners who lose animals to wolves and cougars. The committee voted unanimously Feb. 9 to move House Bill 4005 with a do-pass recommendation to the House floor, with subs ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:55 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A Senate bill would give ranchers more freedom to kill wolves that attack their sheep and cows, including letting them use ultralight aircraft and live bait such as dogs to help lure the predators. Currently, Idaho ranchers who see wolves attacking their livestock ca ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:05 AM
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- The smallest cattle herd since the 1950s likely will mean higher beef prices at the supermarket for the next two years. Experts said beef prices could climb as much as 10 percent a year in 2012 and 2013, and the increase could be even greater if demand from other co ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:34 AM
ANDERSON, Calif. - On Jeff Fowle's Facebook page, a list of his favorite songs includes Diamond Rio's "Meet In the Middle." That's fitting. Fowle, 41, lives in the eye of a political storm - in more ways than one. An Etna, Calif., rancher and hay producer, he is on the front lines in the battle ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:35 PM
Biologists tracked alpha male and sent warnings to ranchers By JOSEPH DITZLER East Oregonian Publishing Group The GPS tracking collar on the Imnaha alpha male has stopped transmitting data, curtailing a text-message warning system that gave Wallowa County ranchers the heads-up on preying wolves. ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM
The Idaho Cattle Association has sent the Environmental Protection Agency comments on behalf of its 700 members opposing a proposal the group believes would hurt concentrated animal feeding operations. The EPA has proposed requiring all CAFOs to report a long list of information about their opera ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
SALEM -- Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, says that he believes sponsors have the votes to get two wolf bills through the Oregon House. Getting them through the Senate, however, could be another matter. House Bill 4005 would provide livestock owners a tax credit for livestock losses to wolves. A second ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:00 AM
BOISE -- A new brucellosis-testing rule approved by the Idaho Legislature is expected to improve the marketability of Idaho cattle and convince other states not to adopt onerous import restrictions on Gem State livestock. The new rule changes Idaho's brucellosis testing requirements to align them ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:00 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The LSU Board of Supervisors has approved merging the LSU AgCenter's Department of Veterinary Science into its School of Animal Sciences. AgCenter Chancellor Bill Richardson says the merger will strengthen research and extension programs in both units and complement the ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:32 AM
NEWARK, Del. (AP) -- A new University of Delaware study says that the Environmental Protection Agency has overestimated the amount of chicken waste that's in the nutrient runoff that enters the Chesapeake Bay. WBOC-TV reports that the study is in agreement with Delmarva poultry farmers, who hav ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:32 AM
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas and its congressional delegation face "a continuous fight" to obtain federal funding for a new lab that would research plant and animal pathogens, Gov. Sam Brownback said. Brownback told two-dozen lawmakers during a Monday evening meeting at his official reside ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:01 PM
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday granted conditional class-action status to a lawsuit filed on behalf of an estimated 700 workers at the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef slaughterhouse in Arkansas City. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren ruled that the class would include all hourl ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 3:19 PM
OLYMPIA -- With the first cutoff date passed, several important pieces of ag-related legislation are still in play, among them bills related to managing wolves. Off the table are proposals to require labeling of genetically modified foods. Feb. 3 was the date by which bills had to emerge fro ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 2:49 PM
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) -- Officials say workers were evacuated at two northwest Arkansas meat processing plants due to ammonia leaks. Springdale plants owned by Cargill Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. each evacuated workers Monday morning after apparently unrelated ammonia leaks. Cargill plant ma ...
Monday, February 06, 2012 9:48 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park administrators plan to capture and ship to slaughter potentially hundreds of wild bison if they migrate into Montana this winter in a bid to reduce disease and control the population of the animals. The captures could begin as soon as mid- ...
Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:27 PM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials in Montana added a third day in their effort to capture bighorn sheep from Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake. Officials through Friday had captured 29 bighorns as part of their plan to transplant 50 to the Tendoy mountains, about 40 miles south of Di ...
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