Tens of thousands of cattle are being trucked into the region to graze on winter feed, many from the Bovine Johne's Disease control zone areas to the south. Cattle detained due to fears of disease outbreak. Cattle have been detained at five far west New South Wales properties following concerns about a potential outbreak of Bovine Johne's Disease. The Department of Primary Industries' Greg Curran says some cattle have been detained because paperwork was not in order and he and local police...

It's summertime and the dry, hot weather is not making life easy on cattle farmers in Alabama. Retailers say they've seen the price of ribeye drop about a dollar a pound in the last month, but the prices of hamburger have remained teh same due to the increase in demand. The current drought is forcing ranchers to sell their cattle earlier than usual. Finding food for the cattle is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Cattlemen say the situation has become critical. Drought Wages War...

That means more than 3,000 Alaskan inmates might be guzzling milk from one of these cows in the near future. The death of the dairy industry, they say, means trouble for everyone. Everyone has their own ideas on how to save these farms, from selling Alaskan-only milk at Mat Maid to making all government departments buy from only local farms. Farmers say they'll have to dump their milk on the fields and the cows, more than 90 from this farm, will have to go. The governor's office says Palin...

Now, there are many foods ranging from Spam-looking meat products to liquid cheeses that claim to be organic, but couldn't possibly be healthy for me or the environment. Egg and poultry producers can call their products "free range" merely because their cages are 2 or 3 inches above average size, or there is a door open to an outdoor pen that they can use for a few days out of their short lives. Add to that the carbon costs to the environment of transporting organic produce from California...

The Beef Mobile was created to provide information about beef and the beef industry and to promote the nutritional value of beef. The beef industry even had its own official protein-powered runner, Lucinda Harnish, the daughter of a Pennsylvania veal producer wearing a beef and veal runner s jersey. Beef made a triumphant return to the Boston Marathon this year when a volunteer beef brigade served up 4,000 beef samples and promoted lean beef during the nation s most famous foot race. Just...