Source: University of Alberta, Bev Betkowski
A new University of Alberta project is, for the first time, harnessing information from thousands of soil samples into one big database to get an idea of how healthy the province’s agricultural soils are.
The...
Source: University of Illinois news release
Like the virus that causes COVID-19, pathogens that attack crops change constantly to evade host immunity, or disease resistance in plant parlance. Sometimes, a single gene makes the difference between a resistant crop and...
Source: Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Dr. Wenzhu Yang of AAFC's Lethbridge Research Centre is investigating the use of cinnamaldehyde, a plant essential oil from cinnamon bark, as a possible alternative to ionophore antibiotics in feedlot finishing systems.
Intensive feedlot finishing...
Source: National Library of Medicine
Janelle Jiminez 1, Edouard Timsit 2 3 4, Karin Orsel 2, Frank van der Meer 5, Le Luo Guan 1, Graham Plastow 1
Affiliations
1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Livestock Gentec, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
2Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University...
Source: Alberta Beef Producers
LEAD RESEARCHERS: Dr. Sheryl Gow (Public Health Agency of Canada), Tim McAllister (AAFC Lethbridge), and Calvin Booker (Feedlot Health Management Services), Paul Morley and Kathy Benedict (Colorado State University).
Background: Antimicrobial resistance has two implications for cattle...
Source: American Society for Microbiology
Authors: Andrea Kinnear, Matthew Waldner, Tim A. McAllister, Rahat Zaheer, Karen Register, Murray Jelinski
ABSTRACT
Mycoplasma bovis is a significant pathogen of feedlot cattle, responsible for chronic pneumonia and polyarthritis syndrome (CPPS). M. bovis isolates (n = 129) were used to compare four methods of phylogenetic analysis and to determine...
Source: Karen Haugen-Kozyra, Market-based tools for accelerating cattle sustainability in Canada, Animal Frontiers, Volume 11, Issue 4, July 2021, Pages 17–25, https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfab038
Implications
Canada provides a useful and interesting model for tools that can accelerate livestock sustainability, in particular, for the cattle...
Source: Kansas State University news release
A new study by Kansas State University finds that feeding cattle industrial hemp may have a beneficial effect on their welfare: a reduction in stress and increasing the times when they lie down.
"Cattle experience...
Source: University of Alberta, Michael Brown
U of A research could help ranchers adapt to climate change and preserve vital ecosystems.
Ranchers who frequently rotate cattle between fields — resembling how bison once moved across Canada’s prairie — build drought resistance into...
NovaVive Inc., an animal health immunobiology company, today announced that a paper has been published in the Australian Veterinary Journal (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/avj.13156). The paper, “The innate immune stimulant Amplimune® is safe to administer to young feedlot cattle”, summarizes a research study conducted by CSIRO,...