Responsible use of animal antibiotics benefits all of us by making food safer and more affordable, but changes to how they are used in livestock animals changed in 2017. Learn more about antibiotic use in animals and what that means for our food supply.
Read MoreFarmers are eager to explain how pigs are raised and cared for. Few people have firsthand knowledge of what modern pig farming looks like. Now more than ever, we have access to many tools and resources to better care for our animals and meet consumer demand.
Read MoreCattle farmers and ranchers have many tools to keep the animals in their care healthy and safe, including nutrition programs, veterinary care, facilities that ensure comfort, and good management practices, such as low-stress handling, vaccines and antibiotics, when necessary.
Read MoreThe journey of raising beef is among the most complex of any food. Due in part to their changing nutritional needs throughout their lifetime, beef cattle often times will change hands and ownership up to three or four times, over the course of one and a half to three years, as they move through their various life stages.
Read MoreThanks to a combination of selective breeding and rearing practices, most of today's chickens raised for meat (commonly known as "broiler" chickens) are a much healthier and faster-growing stock than the chickens of a few years ago.
Read MoreThe Chicken Guarantees are a set of welfare standards that serve as a benchmark for the broiler chicken (chicken raised for meat) industry – and they’re also simple consumer guarantees.
Read MoreFarmers and ranchers are dedicated to the health and well-being of their animals. So when the weather gets hot and humid, they take many steps to ensure their livestock are happy and healthy! Here are four ways that farmers help animals keep cool during the summer.
Read MoreYou don’t have to look very hard to notice all the ways advances in technology continue to revolutionize our lives. Although still following tradition in many ways, animal agriculture has also embraced this revolution. Farmers and ranchers have been able to improve animal health, welfare, reproduction, record keeping and so much more.
Read MoreThere are two main reasons why newborn dairy calves don’t stay with their mothers: for their safety and their health. To answer this question, I’d like to remind you of the very real and often forgotten fact that cows and people are very different. Cows do not exist in a family unit like most people do. They are herd animals, meaning that they are most comfortable with other cows their age and their size – their herd-mates.
Bundled up in scarfs, hats and gloves, families across the country are bracing for ice and snow with wind chills in the single digits. As children build snowmen and parents curse the wind while clearing snow off their vehicles, farmers and ranchers are making sure their animals stay comfortable. Farmers are the 24/7 caretakers of livestock and poultry – whether it’s 64 degrees or -2 degrees!
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