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,...
Source: University of Saskatchewan
RESEARCHERS
Genetic and genomic factors influencing gestational length in beef cattle
Dr. Mika Asai-Coakwell (PhD), College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan mika.asai-coakwell@usask.ca
College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan: Dr. Bart Lardner (PhD), Dr. Greg Penner...