The Alliance for the Future of Agriculture in Nebraska (A-FAN) collaborated with agriculture-related student organizations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to host the second annual, Husker Food Connection. Husker Food Connection helps urban students better understand where their food comes from. The theme of the Husker Food Connection was, “Know what we grow: Discovering Nebraska Agriculture.” Listen to Lukas Fricke, …
New Names for Beef & Pork Cuts
The National Pork Board and Beef Checkoff Program received unanimous approval from the Industry-Wide Cooperative Meat Identification Standards Committee to introduce updated Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards nomenclature for fresh beef and pork for retailers to use on pack. Changes to the beef and pork common names were the culmination of extensive consumer research which showed an opportunity for retailers …
See It? Stop It! Animal Care Starts With You
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), along with the Center for Food Integrity and the U.S. Pork Sector jointly launched “See It? Stop It! Animal Care Starts With You.” A campaign to give proactive demonstration of agriculture’s commitment to farm animal care. The initiative demands that if signs of animal abuse, neglect, mishandling or harm are seen, then we have …
Annual Meat Conference App
The Annual Meat Conference is set to kick off this afternoon. Registration is taking place now and all attendees and others are encouraged to get The Annual Meat Conference App (iOS). It’s on my iPhone. You’ll find all kinds of information including conference updates and an attendees list. Get it for Android here. The Annual Meat Conference, sponsored by the …
USFRA Announces Four Fresh Faces of Farming
The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has announced four Faces of Farming & Ranching chosen from on-line voting and a panel of judges. The four represent a range of agricultural commodities including corn and soybeans, hogs, cattle, and dairy and they were chosen from nine finalists announced last month at the New York Food Dialogues. The winners will act …
For PRRS Eradication: Use Technology, Share Info
Some people are better than others when it comes to sharing. At the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium there was plenty of information to share… including how to do a better job at sharing information, as well as using technology. Dr. Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt from the University of Montreal was one of the presenters …
See the PRRS Big Picture, But Don’t Miss Details
You’ve heard the expression, can’t see the forest for the trees. Well, when it comes to the PRRS eradication conversation at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium, you have to make sure you’re seeing the big picture without missing important details. “Important stuff has some different levels – the micro level, the macro …
With PRRS, It’s the Last 1 Percent that’s the Problem
One of the talks at the Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar at the International PRRS Symposium was dubbed “Unreasonable Expectations,” given by Dr. Eric Neuman, originally from Illinois, but now a veterinary epidemiologist with Massey University in New Zealand. Part of the “unreasonable expectation” in PRRS eradication could be thinking the disease can be solved easily. The problem …
BIVI Focus on Solutions, Not Sales, at Seminar
While Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica might be one of the key players in swine vaccines, the company’s 4th PRRS ARC&E Seminar was not about selling inoculations. “The reason [we created this symposium] was [there was] a lot of frustration about how to control PRRS. We didn’t really make the progress we thought we should be making, and we found out we …
Bioportal Could Help with PRRS Decisions
Providing field practitioners with a bioportal to help them make better decisions was one topic of conversation at the 4th Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica PRRS ARC&E Seminar, an event held in conjunction with the International PRRS Symposium. Chuck caught up with Dr. Jean-Paul Cano, a veterinarian with BIVI and on the company’s PRRS team. His talk, “Application of Disease Bioportal for …