Saturday, February 04, 2012
Click here for RSS feedCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday rejected a challenge from environmental groups seeking to force the federal government to take immediate action to increase protections for the sage grouse. Had their request been granted, it could have curtailed new energy production on publi ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 1:17 PM
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Champis the bunny doesn't only hop -- he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job. The 5-year-old pet rabbit from the small village of Kal in northern Sweden shot to online fame last we ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 9:56 AM
MAYSVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia farmer is recovering after being attacked by a 900-pound rabid cow. Raymond Parks tells WXIA-TV (http://on.11alive.com/xIKbvX) that the cow head-butted him and broke some of his ribs. Parks says he was thrown into a barbed-wire fence during the attack, wh ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:27 AM
of Kinston reports (http://bit.ly/xt9fqL ) that 24-year-old Cherrette Elkins and 26-year-old Kevin Elkins of Snow Hill were arrested Wednesday in Lenoir County. They face charges of obtaining property under false pretenses and larceny of livestock after a six-month investigation by the Greene Count ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:27 AM
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) -- Tyson Foods, the nation's biggest meat company, said its fiscal first-quarter profit fell by nearly half from last year as higher feed costs cut into the company's profit margins. But Tyson said Friday it was able to raise prices on chicken and beef as it cut back ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:26 AM
Business is booming at the Farwest Hatchery near Canby, Ore. Owner Terry Cain expects his company to sell a half-million chicks in 2012, up fivefold from 2011, the hatchery's first year. "We have more customers than we have eggs," he said. "We're trying to build as fast as we can to cover the ma ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 9:00 AM
PASCO, Wash. -- While the two-year labor battle at a Washington state dairy remains on hold pending the union's legal appeals, the farmer vows to see that justice is served. Dick Bengen, who owns the Ruby Ridge Dairy with his wife, Ruby, said his workers have rallied behind him. He has approximat ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
AUBURNDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities went high tech to catch some central Florida cattle rustlers. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says red-light cameras helped detectives track down two men accused of stealing more than a dozen cows from an Auburndale pasture. The cows were taken from 77 ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:46 AM
RED BLUFF, Calif. -- Despite an overall sluggish economy, businesses that cater to the livestock industry have been holding their own. For some businesses, including Hickman Saddlery in Post Falls, Idaho, the key has been to augment income by venturing into new areas of marketing. The business h ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:00 PM
While the number of meat chickens produced by smaller farms has been shrinking, the number of organic broilers sold each year has surged. Organic production of meat chickens more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2008, to more than 9 million broilers, according to the latest data from USDA's Econo ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:00 AM
RED BLUFF, Calif. -- Bulls are in better supply in California this year than they were a year ago, which is easing prices. That much was evident at last weekend's 71st Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale, where 344 bulls sold for a combined $1.24 million -- marking the second year in a row the sale t ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Hormel Foods Corp.'s company-owned farms are phasing out the use of small metal crates for confining pregnant hogs by the end of 2017 -- a move welcomed Thursday by the Humane Society of the United States, which had pushed for the change. The Humane Society has been ca ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 4:46 PM
Market watchers are forecasting a good year for U.S. beef but say 2012 won't be without its challenges. One has to start with the reality that U.S. cattle numbers are really down, said Raoul Baxter, president of Worldwide Business Development at Fort Mitchell, Ky., and a 30-year veteran of the ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
The high cost of feed and hay availability issues will continue to challenge dairy producers in 2012, an ag economist says. Dairymen can expect more of what they saw in 2011, said Wilson Gray, livestock extension economist with University of Idaho at Twin Falls. "Cost of production is going to s ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Rancher Dan Dawson hopes Oregon hunters are aware of the predator problem and join the fight against coyotes, cougars and bears. Hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts are being given that option thanks to a law the Oregon State Legislature passed last year. When purchasing a lic ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
LA GRANDE, Ore. -- Size does matter, at least when it comes to cattle, according to Kenneth Olsen, range beef specialist at South Dakota State University. Olsen said today's fed cattle (steers and heifers) compared to 1990 are 14 percent larger at slaughter, spend eight more days on feed, gain we ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
Federal officials won't decide until 2015 whether the sage grouse will be listed as an endangered species, but experts say ranchers should act now. Attorney Jessica Ferrell said listing the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act would mean there could be no "take" of the bird. That preclude ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:00 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A bill that would end future state subsidies for corn-based ethanol is in the California Senate after sailing through the Assembly. The bill by Assemblyman David Valadao, R-Hanford, would bar any funding from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:00 PM
BOISE -- A bill introduced in the Idaho Legislature seeks to make Idaho's commercial feed law less cumbersome and intrusive and ensure farmers and ranchers get the quality of animal feed they pay for. The legislation, which was sent to print by the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee and will b ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:00 PM
WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- A bill to set a national welfare standard for egg-laying hens faces an uphill battle, according to the congressman who introduced it. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., said House Agriculture Committee leaders have indicated they won't support the compromise legislation brokered bet ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:00 AM
Range managers from around the world will meet Jan. 29-Feb.3 in Spokane, Wash. The Society for Range Management holds its annual meeting at the Spokane Convention Center and Red Lion Hotel at the Park. Jack Alexander, president of the society and a rancher near Belgrade, Mont., said the meeting ...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:00 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Frustrated that a judge has blocked a state kill order against two members of Oregon's first wolf pack, the Oregon Cattlemen's Association is pushing legislation to boost the state's authority over the predators. Conservation groups that sued the state to stop th ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 3:45 PM
PATAGONIA, Ariz. (AP) -- A cattlemen's group is offering a cash reward in hopes of finding whoever is responsible for shooting and butchering a steer in southeastern Arizona earlier this month in what could be the latest in a string of livestock killings. The Southern Arizona Cattlemen's Protec ...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:43 AM
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Labor Department says Washington Beef has agreed to pay $50,000 in back wages to a former employee who was fired for taking medical leave from the packing plant at Toppenish. Investigators found the worker was unlawfully terminated in violation of the Family and Medical Leav ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:32 PM
RED BLUFF, Calif. -- Despite an overall sluggish economy, businesses that cater to the livestock industry have at least been holding their own. For some businesses, including Hickman Saddlery in Post Falls, Idaho, the key has been to augment income by venturing into new areas of marketing. Th ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:12 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Humane Society of the United States is alleging that pork producers Seaboard Foods and Prestage Farms Inc. are mistreating pregnant pigs on Oklahoma farms by keeping them in so-called "gestation cages." The Humane Society's Paul Shapiro said at an Oklahoma Ci ...
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