Health

News

• Alliance holds schools to detoxify Missouri’s K-31 fescue pastures
  Monday, March 25, 2013
  LINNEUS, Mo. – Kentucky 31 tall fescue covers the ground well and resists insects, drought and overgrazing. But this most widely used pasture grass in Missouri has a flaw. “Common fescue is toxic to livestock,” said Craig Roberts, University of Missouri Extension forage specialist.
• Interstate cattle movement affected by new USDA rule
  Tuesday, March 19, 2013
  COLUMBIA, Mo.–A new USDA animal disease traceability rule requires that livestock animals be officially identified before they are moved across state lines.
• Cattle heat-stress app at hand to help producers reduce weather-related livestock losses
  Wednesday, September 5, 2012
  COLUMBIA, Mo. – A new tool to help cattle producers reduce heat-related losses soon will be as close as the nearest smartphone.
  
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• G3653, Using the California Mastitis Test
• G7701, Displaced Abomasum
• M179, Dairy Grazing: Herd Health

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