Source: Cornell Chronicles, By Krisy Gashler
A partnership between industry, government and academia is bringing a state-of-the-art lab upgrade to Cornell’s Department of Animal Science.
Four climate-controlled respiration chambers will be built in the Large Animal Research and Teaching Unit to study...
Source: Dairy Farmers of Ontario
Dairy Farmers of Ontario is pleased to announce an investment of nearly $540,000 in research at the University of Guelph into antimicrobial medicines which are used to treat, control and prevent animal and human disease...
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Context
Antimicrobial stewardship is a public health concern that calls for the judicious use of antimicrobials in veterinary medicine. The FDA has prohibited certain extralabel uses of cephalosporin and fluoroquinolones drugs in the veterinary field to preserve...
Source: Government of Canada
Citation
J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 100 (Suppl. 2):265.
Plain language summary
In Canada, corn silage is increasingly fed to lactating dairy cows at the expense of barley silage and other forages, as its high-energy content can improve animal performance....
Source: Elanco
A newly-published white paper, “Pathway to Climate Neutrality for U.S. Beef and Dairy Cattle Production” by Drs. Sara E. Place, chief sustainability officer for Elanco Animal Health (NYSE: ELAN) and Frank M. Mitloehner, professor and director of the CLEAR...
Source: University of Georgia Extension
INTRODUCTION
Antibiotic therapy continues to play an important role in the control of mastitis in dairy cows. Lactational therapy is effective against Streptococcus agalactiae but less successful against infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and other causes of mastitis. As a...
NovaVive Inc., an animal health immunobiology company, today announced that an article has been published in the Journal of Animal Science (https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/9/skab191/6360969 <https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/99/9/skab191/6360969> ). The article summarizes a research study evaluating the effect of peripartal (around the time of calving)...
Source: MDPI
Simple Summary
The aim of this study was to determine the motivation of pasture housed dairy heifers to access shade during southern Brazil’s summer and autumn months, and if social rank affected shade use. Heifers valued shade and worked...
Source: University of British Columbia
Cows kept in ‘tie stalls’ are tethered in individual stalls. This is the most prominent form of housing for Canadian dairy cattle (74% of farms in Canada use tie stalls), especially in Quebec and Ontario....
Source: PennState Extension
Animal feed production is undergoing a shift in approach to food safety, with preventive measures to address possible hazards before they occur.
The safety and quality of feed and forages are critical to avoid losses in production, herd...
