Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Market Access: Challenges for the Beef Industry in Southern Africa
By Ian Scoones and William Wolmer, Working Paper 1, 2008. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. Transboundary animal disease and market access: future options for the beef industry in southern Africa

Meat Quality and Animal Welfare
It has long been known that the impact of poor animal welfare before an animal goes into slaughter can have a detrimental effect on the quality of meat. Now producers and slaughterers are beginning to understand the science behind this process and, more...

Emergency Considerations for Beef Cattle¹
By Max Irsik and Todd Thrift², University of Florida, IFA Extension. Hurricanes have the potential to cause severe damage to ranches and cattle production facilities.

Feeding Corn Gluten to Beef Cattle¹
By Bob Myer and Matt Hersom², University of Florida, IFAS Extension. Corn gluten feed (CGF) is a co-product from the wet-corn milling industry that manufactures starch, sweeteners, syrup, and oil from corn (Weigel et al).

Economic Impacts of Foreign Animal Disease
This report by the USDA Economic Research Service presents a modeling framework in which epidemiological model results are integrated with an economic model of the U.S. agricultural sector to enable estimation of the economic impacts of outbreaks of foreign-source...

Freeze Branding Beef Cattle
By Dr. Jane A. Parish, Associate Extension/Research Professor, Animal and Dairy Science, and Dr. Justin Rhinehart, Assistant Extension Professor, Animal and Dairy Science. Mississippi State University Extension Service.

Media Battles: Changing the View of Livestock Production
This article is taken from the proceedings of the Livestock Care Conference, held by Alberta Farm Animal Care. Media is highly influenced...

US Feed Outlook
Allen Baker, Edward Allen, and Heather Lutman, ERS USDA. This monthly report examines supply, use, prices, and trade for feed grains, including supply and demand prospects in major importing and exporting countries. Focuses on corn; also contains information...

US Beef and Dairy Outlook Report - May 2008
By U.S.D.A, Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the May 2008: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report.

Learning & Profiting from Animal Welfare Trends
New definitions and expectations surrounding welfare also carry strong value-added opportunities for the livestock industry, says Dr. John Webster in the proceedings from the Livestock...

Beef & The 3 C's - No Rest For The Weary
By Nevil Speer, PhD, MBA, Western Kentucky University and published in the Ohio State University Beef Team Newsletter. January's Monthly Market Profile was subtitled "2008 - Corn, Consumers...

Red Meat and Cancer - Fact or Fiction?
A World Cancer Research Fund report published at the end of last year concluded that people should eat less than 500 grams or 18 ounces of red meat per week, writes ThePigSite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.

Maximising Beef Output from Grazed Grass
By Francis Lively, AFBI, Hillsborough - Grazed grass is the cheapest source of feed available for beef cattle in Northern Ireland.

Livestock and Poultry World Markets and Trade
New countries have been added to the beef and veal PSD to reduce the gap between total imports and total exports by selected countries, writes the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.

The Cow-Calf Manager Livestock Update, April 2008
By Dr. John B. Hall, Extension Beef Specialist, VA Tech. Livestock Update, April 2008.