Category: Animal Health

Forage Sorghum

Scientific Advancements Give Us Another Option By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor Corn is king. It is the king of cattle finishing operations, the ethanol industry

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The Amazing Ruminant

By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor Bovines have been taking a bum rap for too many years. First, doctors mistakenly reported the risk of heart disease

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Fetal Programming

Scientific Advancement with Tragic Beginnings By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor In the past few years, cattlemen have had opportunities to study and take advantage of

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Septic Arthritis

By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor We have all seen hapless cattle of various ages with enlarged navels and painful, swollen joints. And, we know this

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U.S. CattleTrace

A Voluntary Disease Tracability Program By Gilda V. Bryant, Contributing Editor The COVID-19 virus has shown us just how quickly a pathogen can spread through

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A Better Way

By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor This Chuteside examines a multi-faceted topic, and a cutting-edge method of vaccination that is gaining momentum. Though at first it

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Another Emerging Virus

The Merry-Go-Round That Never Ends By Patti Wilson, Contributing Editor In 2003, a Japanese human research team in Aichi Prefecture was frustrated with the results

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Autogenous Vaccines

Another Tool For Your Toolbox By Gilda V. Bryant, Contributing Editor When commercial vaccines don’t work for certain conditions, such as pinkeye, autogenous vaccines may

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Better Animal Health

Have Changes in Cattle Drug Use Helped? By Larry Stalcup, Contributing Editor Doctoring cattle usually isn’t a producer’s favorite chore. Weather, faulty equipment, ornery labor

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