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Beef 911: Preventing negative side-effects of cattle vaccinations

It is good practice to take a walk through any recently vaccinated cattle to check for reactions

By Roy Lewis June 22, 2015

There are now a multitude of vaccines on the market for all facets of the beef and dairy industry. Vaccinating has become part of the biosecurity program on your farm, ranch or dairy. It is good for our industry as it controls disease, minimizes antibiotic use, improves production, and decreases death or losses from abortion.

Little piglet in piggery with innocent eye

Livestock, Local news

Women’s Institute calls for action to protect antibiotics from overuse

The Manitoba Women’s Institute held its annual meeting earlier this month in Winnipeg

By Lorraine Stevenson May 27, 2015

The Manitoba Women’s Institute has added its voice to the growing concerns expressed about overuse of antibiotics in both humans and animals. At its May convention members strongly supported a resolution calling for the federal government to take action before a health crisis develops. Newdale farmer and retired nurse, Enid Clark, spoke to the matter

Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef 911: How can you improve your calf processing?

There are always ways to improve and it’s worthwhile reviewing how things went this year

By Roy Lewis May 25, 2015

Since the traditional time for getting calves ready for grass is close to over, it is good to review your protocols, methods, and any issues you had this year and introduce ways to improve next year. There are two main ways ranchers process calves. The first is the traditional way we call ‘branding,’ where calves

Livestock, Markets

Wal-Mart urges meat suppliers to curb antibiotic use

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Wal-Mart Stores is pressing meat, seafood, dairy and egg suppliers to reduce the use of antibiotics, becoming the first large retailer to take a stand against the excessive use of drugs in raising farm animals. The guidelines announced on Friday would limit suppliers to using antibiotics to treat and prevent disease,

Hogs, Livestock

Hog farmers more likely to carry resistant bacteria, U.S. study shows

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek May 2, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Hog farmers are six times more likely than the general population to carry an infectious bacteria that can cause skin and respiratory problems and resists treatment from multiple drugs, according to a new U.S. research study. The study, published this week in the online journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, is the largest-ever

Livestock

Tyson to end use of human antibiotics in U.S. chickens by 2017

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter April 28, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. poultry producer, plans to eliminate use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by September 2017, one of the most aggressive timetables yet set by an American poultry company. The Arkansas-based chicken and meat company also said Tuesday it is working on ways to curtail such

Livestock

Federal government unveils plans to tackle drug resistance

Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose has held a workshop  with industry to discuss the plan

By Alex Binkley April 28, 2015

The federal government has unveiled a national plan for tackling the growing threat from bacteria increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Late on April 17, the Department of Health issued a press release saying it would propose regulations under the Food and Drugs Act to end growth-promoting claims and bulk imports. It didn’t provide any details on

Livestock

Rules planned to rein in antibiotic use for livestock

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 17, 2015

Health Canada is making its first move on new regulations to limit livestock producers’ own-use imports of veterinary drugs, and to tighten veterinary oversight of medicated livestock feed and water. Proposed changes to the federal Food and Drug Regulations and Feeds Regulations, announced Friday, tie into Health Minister Rona Ambrose’s federal action plan on antimicrobial

Livestock

U.S. meat industry bought more human antibiotics to 2013, FDA says

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter April 10, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– Sales of medically important antibiotics in the U.S. for use in livestock jumped by 20 per cent between 2009 and 2013, federal regulators said on Friday, although recent statements by producers suggest those figures could be dropping. Between 2012 and 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said its annual report,

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Horse dung has scientists on scent of antibiotic success

Unlike other antibiotics, the compound is a protein  and offers a different mode of action

By Jim Drury April 6, 2015

European biologists have discovered a bacteria-killing compound in common mushrooms that grow in horse dung. Unusually for an antibiotic, copsin is a protein; but laboratory trials showed it to have the same effect on bacteria as traditional antibiotics. The scientific community hopes to be able to develop a new range of antibiotics to replace those

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Tag Archives Antibiotics

Beef 911: Preventing negative side-effects of cattle vaccinations

Women’s Institute calls for action to protect antibiotics from overuse

Beef 911: How can you improve your calf processing?

Wal-Mart urges meat suppliers to curb antibiotic use

Hog farmers more likely to carry resistant bacteria, U.S. study shows

Tyson to end use of human antibiotics in U.S. chickens by 2017

Federal government unveils plans to tackle drug resistance

Rules planned to rein in antibiotic use for livestock

U.S. meat industry bought more human antibiotics to 2013, FDA says

Horse dung has scientists on scent of antibiotic success

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