TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Food/Nutrition, Beef Cattle, Ranching,

09/21/2020 SOURCE: robbreport.com

You Can Now Buy American Wagyu Beef Directly from One of the Country’s Top Producers

In Kentucky, Black Hawk Farms is raising American wagyu that's richly marbled and selling cuts including ribeye, NY strip, Delmonico and more

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TOPIC(S): Beef Cattle, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Biotech,

09/16/2020 SOURCE: newatlas.com

CRISPR creates "surrogate sires" that produce prize-winning donor sperm

In a breakthrough that promises to revolutionize the precision breeding of animals, an international team of scientists led by Jon Oatley, a reproductive biologist with Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, has for the first time used the CRISPR gene editing tool to produce infertile animals that become "surrogate sires" and produce sperm containing only donor animal DNA

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Poultry, Beef Cattle, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, USDA,

09/15/2020 SOURCE: ocj.com

NFU urges FTC, USDA to strengthen meat labeling standards

For years, beef and pork that was born, raised, and slaughtered in another country but processed in the United States has legally been labeled as a “Product o

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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Poultry, Beef Cattle, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog,

Rapid test could predict COVID-19 in meat processing workers

Differentials can be used to screen people to identify those likely to test positive for COVID-19, triage by predicting COVID-19 in the early stage of infection and track progress of those patients.

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Curt Livesay
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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Beef Cattle, Regenerative Agriculture,

Benefits of cattle grazing for reducing fire fuels and fire hazard

The California Cattle Council recently funded a University of California (UC) Cooperative Extension project to evaluate how much fine fuel (grasses and other plants) are eaten by cattle on rangelands,

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Agriculture US, Sustainability, Beef Cattle,

09/11/2020 SOURCE: www.supermarketperimeter.com

Tyson Foods to verify 5 million acres of sustainable beef production

‘Working with Where Food Comes From’ is part of the company’s ongoing companywide sustainability efforts.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Corn/Maize, Sorghum, Organic, Water, Beef Cattle,

Small farmers challenge conventional agriculture in Pineland Sands

One farmer's plans to irrigate his land to grow crops has triggered a legal challenge by o...

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Beef Cattle, USDA, Ranching,

09/09/2020 SOURCE: www.coloradopolitics.com

Farm Bureau calls Trump administration's grazing rule 'unworkable'

The Colorado Farm Bureau is calling the Trump administration's emergency haying and grazing rules unworkable and called for "swift changes."

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TOPIC(S): Conservation/Tillage, Beef Cattle, Vegan, Ranching,

09/08/2020 SOURCE: theconversation.com

Vegan leather made from mushrooms could mould the future of sustainable fashion

Going from a single spore to a finished fungi-derived leather product takes a couple of weeks. But raising a cow to maturity for bovine leather can take several years.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Beef Cattle, Ranching,

09/07/2020 SOURCE: www.aspentimes.com

Local ranchers face backlog of cattle due to coronavirus. Now comes the drought.

Ranchers were left with a backlog of cattle earlier this year when meatpacking plants had to close or slow production due to COVID-19 outbreaks among employees and public health