Encouraging Progress

Apr 26 2022 Slowly but surely the development of effective vaccines is wending its way through the creation process. A big hurdle was recently passed. https://www.nationalhogfarmer...... more ›

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Doing Its Worst

Mar 23 2022 It is saddening to see the speed and extent of the spread of HPAI in the United States this season. https://www.agriculture.com/ne... The impact ripples through the industries supporting poultry and egg producers as well, both up-/down-stream of actual... more ›

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A Continuing Nemesis Haunts Poultry

Mar 9 2022 2022 is shaping up as the most serious year for breaks of High Pathology Avian Influenza in North America since 2015 when it ravaged the upper midwest commercial layer and turkey flocks. https://www.agriculture.com/li... IDEAL Agriculture & Marine... more ›

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2021 - A Year of Strength for Dairy

Feb 23 2022 Great news for dairy and animal agriculture in general. 2021 saw the United States set all-time records for milk exports. The commercial opportunities in the global marketplace are huge for most industries, high among them agriculture generally. Dairy in... more ›

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Livestock and Major Physical Risks

Dec 21 2021 Starting the weekend of December 11/12 and for the next few days, Mother Nature was not kind to central North America. A clash between warm, humid air and cold dry air occurring at an unusual time of the year caused weather events resulting in heavy damage... more ›

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WORLD DAIRY EXPO

Sep 14 2021 Excitement is building for this year's World Dairy Expo, the first since 2019. World Dairy Expo, COVID excepted, is held annually in Madison Wisconsin, creating the largest dairy-specific show in the world. Attendance includes thousands of international... more ›

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Ag Exports Face A nother Obstacle

Sep 1 2021 Hurricane Ida's legacy is not a very good one; that's not to say there wasn't a bit of a silver lining. The good news: For the most part, the extensive improvements and rebuild of hurricane mitigation and water control systems devastated in Hurricane Katrina... more ›

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Congratulations

Jun 28 2021 IDEAL is very active in Kansas, so just a quick shout-out to Cow Camp Ranch of Lost Springs, Kansas. A long time breeder now in their fourth generation of family management, they were recently named Seedstock Producer of the Year by the Beef Improvement... more ›

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Foreign Disease - Not if but when!

Apr 23 2021 Thinking back to over a year ago I would have never thought that COIVD-19 would have ended up in the United States. Seeing all the news segments and watching the virus tear though Europe seemed so distant from our boarders that I didn’t give it too much... more ›

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Out of This World

Mar 17 2021 As a youngster in elementary school, I remember in early May of 1961 partaking in a special school assembly where a large (for the times) black and white TV was set up before us and we had the opportunity to watch the liftoff from Cape Canaveral of first US... more ›

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