Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of leftover pet food in hog and chicken feed for fear it could spread mad cow disease because it contains cattle parts. Concerns over feeding and living conditions of livestock and poultry have helped fuel the growth of organic farming, which does not use meat byproducts and hormones in feed. Meat byproducts are also common; those are the parts left over after pigs, cattle or other animals are slaughtered and the meat removed for human...

BEIJING (AP) - The mildly toxic chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China, a manager of a feed company and one of the chemical's producers said Monday, a process that boosts the feed's sales value but risks introducing the chemical into meat eaten by humans. Home Page Local Provincial National World Sports Opinion Business Entertainment Lifestyles Technology Agriculture Classifieds. BEIJING (AP) - The mildly toxic chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in...

With corn prices up, cattle farmers need to produce as much of their own cattle feed as possible, he said. Improved forage production is becoming more important to local farmers as they expand beef cattle production to replace the income lost from declining tobacco crops, Sears said. Madison County, which ranks fourth among Kentucky counties in beef production, is well suited for beef cattle production, he said. Incentives for improving facilities renovating pasture lands, protective heavy...

The Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration said in a joint statement that officials learned of the link between the chicken feed and tainted pet food as part of the investigation into imported rice protein concentrate and wheat gluten that have been found to contain the industrial chemical melamine and related compounds. The Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration said in a joint statement that officials learned of the link between the chicken feed...

April cattle on feed numbers in the High Plains and Midwestern states are the second highest since the series began in 1996. Nebraska feedlots contained 2.48 million cattle on feed, a total increase of 3 percent from last year, the largest April 1 inventory in that state since the series began. He said the industry had gone through a long period of year after year increases in cattle on feed numbers. Iowa's cattle on feed for slaughter market totals were virtually unchanged from last...