Articles Tagged with ''cattle''

Tyson Foods announced it will stop buying cattle fed with the growth additive Zilmax in order to protect the animal's welfare.

The meat of healthy cattle is sterile and surrounded by two areas that are highly contaminated with microorganisms. These areas are the hide and the intestinal tract.

Important organizations related to the meat production chain have joined forces to spread social and environmental best practices in cattle production activities in the Brazilian Amazon Region.

Cargill announced that it will idle its Plainview, Texas, beef processing facility effective at the close of business, Friday, Feb.1, 2013.

Federal regulators have fined National Beef Packing Co. $32,500 as part of a consent agreement stemming from its practices with livestock sellers.

Tom Talbot, chairman of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Cattle Health and Well-Being Committee, said despite challenges cattlemen and women face, raising healthy cattle is and always has been a top priority.

Gov. Bob McDonnell announced the first direct shipments of cattle from the state to Canada on Thursday while traveling on a trade and marketing mission in Quebec.

A herd of more than two dozen cattle escaped from a Veneta, Ore., meat processor and got onto the nearby Highway 126.

The USDA reported last week that there about 91 million head of cattle in the United States, a decrease of 2 percent from a year ago and the smallest cattle herd since 1952.