“BioFuels Energy: Animal Agriculture at the Crossroads” will be the theme of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s (NIAA) Annual Meeting, April 2-5, in Sacramento, Calif., at the Hyatt Regency.
“With all of the emphasis on
Taking a get-tough stance, the California Horse Racing Board moved forward with its sweeping overhaul of the state?s equine drug policies including the first ban of so-called ?designer? anabolic steroids.
At its monthly meeting Jan. 23,
The Minnesota Zoo said it won’t repeat its African exhibit that drew huge crowds last summer, citing the exhibit’s high costs and the unexpected deaths of two animals as factors.
Officials had hoped to bring it back, but say that won’t
Disasters can happen anytime and anywhere and can take many different forms, from barn fires to earthquakes, from a propane line explosion to flooding from a violent storm. Any of these might necessitate evacuation. If you have horses or
The eight equine officers of the Minneapolis Mounted Patrol Unit could soon be sleeping in a new $1 million horse facility, according to the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star
The city of Carlsbad, Calif., is suing one of its planning commissioners after he failed to pay $1,600 in fines and late fees for horse manure odor,
A College Station, Texas, police officer who shot and killed his neighbor’s Miniature Horse will not be charged, the Bryan-College Station Eagle
An authentic replication of the 1970 Kentucky Derby trophy is currently being offered on eBay. Connie Peters, a daughter of the late Robert Lehmann, who owned the winning horse Dust Commander, posted the trophy on the online auction site.
On December 2, 2006, The Humane Society of Washington County in Hagerstown, Md., began an enormous horse cruelty investigation. As a result, 74 horses were impounded from a farm in Sharpsburg, Md., and relocated to several locations
All quarantines in effect for horse farms and clinics due to the recent equine herpesvirus outbreak have been lifted, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs said.
?We released the last facility (Jan. 20),? department
All the adoration for Barbaro at the Eclipse Awards couldn’t prevent two of his rivals from winning Thoroughbred racing’s biggest honors.
Invasor overwhelmingly defeated the injured Kentucky Derby winner for Horse of the Year, and Barbaro
Barbaro has steadily improved since having surgery on his left hind hoof, although the Kentucky Derby winner has yet to return outside and will be hospital-bound for at least another month.
“He’s bright, happy, eating,” chief surgeon Dean
The Kentucky Horse Council (KHC), a statewide association for all horse owners and enthusiasts, now provides a $1 million Excess Personal Liability Insurance Policy for all of its individual and family members. Effective January 1, 2007, the
A bill that would create immigration reform specifically for agriculture workers was reintroduced in Congress by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Republican Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho.
The “Agriculture Job
The Humane Society of the United States has called on American and Delta airlines to stop shipping horsemeat from slaughterhouses in Texas to Europe and Asia for human consumption. The request comes on the heels of a federal appeals court ruling
An alert regarding a case of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) put out by the Dutchess County, N.Y., Cornell Cooperative Extension earlier today (Jan. 23) is being clarified.
While the release stated EHV-1 had been diagnosed, Jessica Chittenden,
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