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2 days ago | thecattlesite.com | Zachary Mintus

Environmental Management Grass Management Feed and Nutrition Effective management of pastures leads to greater success Many dairies in the Midwest utilize grazing as a management tool for dairy cow nutrition. Organic and grass-fed dairies intensely manage pastures as a component of milking cow diets, and many conventional dairies will allow dry cows and heifers to graze. When properly managed, pasture can provide a low fiber, high protein feed for lactating and dry cows or heifers.

4 days ago | thecattlesite.com | Zachary Mintus

Research Equipment and Innovation H5N1 avian influenza Avian flu virus, also known as bird flu, continues to affect poultry producers around the globe and US dairy farms in 2025 In North Carolina alone, the virus has resulted in the loss of millions of birds on poultry farms. Meanwhile, less than a year after avian flu was first detected in dairy herds, a new strain of the virus has been found in Nevada cows.

4 days ago | thecattlesite.com | Sarah Mikesell

NCBA CattleCon Technology Digital Innovation Virtual fencing brings together profit, sustainability and real-time information about your herd — all for considerably less time, effort and money than traditional fencing requires Gary Tiller, commercial director of Vence, a subsidiary of Merck Animal Health also known as MSD Animal Health in other parts of the world, spoke to The Cattle Site’s Sarah Mikesell in San Antonio, Texas at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association’s CattleCon about...

4 days ago | thecattlesite.com | Sarah Mikesell

Marketing Beef Market Trends Trade New World Screwworm (NWS) detected in remote farms with minimal cattle movement as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from US border On Sunday, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the suspension of live cattle, horse and bison imports through US ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately.

1 week ago | thecattlesite.com | Jim Wyckoff

Marketing Dairy Marketing Beef Economics Livestock analyst Jim Wyckoff reports on global protein news Beef: Net sales of 7,600 MT for 2025 were down 41 percent from the previous week and 42 percent from the prior 4-week average.