Ask most people about animal agriculture in Iowa and they talk about pigs and cattle. But there are other animal species raised in the state that have a significant economic impact. One is the horse industry.
Peggy Miller-Auwerda, associate
An emergency services protocol and fund to help horses caught up in accidents was launched yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
The protocol–created by The British Horse Society (BHS) and the British Equine Veterinary Association
The University of Cambridge’s Equine Fertility Unit (EFU), which among other projects over the years produced Europe’s first test tube foal, will close in September due to lack of funding, said facility head Twink Allen, BVSc, PhD, ScD, DESM,
Jailed British rider Daniel Robinson has been freed after an international campaign and a plea by The British Horse Society’s President, Noel Edmonds.
Edmonds–host of the U.K. version of television show Deal or No Deal–wrote in
The National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s (NIAA) annual ID Info Expo 2007 will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, August 28-30 at the Westin Crown Center.
The theme of this year’s event will be “Where Traceability Needs
Scrooge, the longest-serving police horse in Manchester, U.K., has retired after 16 years of service, the BBC reported.
The 16.3-hand bay joined
Larry Jones, who is still having visions of Street Sense getting shut off somewhere–anywhere–in the Kentucky Derby is just about ready to drop what might have been and focus all his attention on what will be.
After all, Street Sense, whose
The English arrived in Jamestown in 1607. They imported horses just three years later. So it is perhaps fitting that northern Virginia horse country will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown landing with a polo match.
And
The Yard Bag Chute is a corrugated polypropylene and plastic insert/liner for paper yard waste bags. The design of the 36-inch high Yard Bag Chute keeps the paper bag open, sturdy, and in an upright position while filling the chute with grass
Farnam’s popular SuperMask is now available in a specially designed size to fit most A- and B-size Miniature Horses. This unique mask features adjustable poll and throatlatch closures for adjustability and a good fit for most Miniature Horses.
The American Quarter Horse Association testified Tuesday, May 8, before the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry on the welfare of animals in agriculture.
The Subcommittee heard testimony
Freedom Health, LLC, has expanded the Succeed Challenge Series to include a year-end award for members of the MidSouth Eventing and Dressage Association (MSEDA) who compete in selected horse trial events sanctioned by the organization during the
Oregon’s pets, service animals, and farm animals will now be included in state disaster plans. Governor Ted Kulongoski signed the bill into law on May 7.
The “Animals in Disaster” legislation (S.B. 570) passed the state House 53-5 in
A planned Rolling Stones concert in Belgrade will not take place at the city’s racetrack to avoid upsetting hundreds of horses stabled nearby.
The July 14 concert will now take place in a vast public park in the Serbian capital, Raka Maric of
If you’re missing nine friendly horses, Jane Paulsen hopes you’ll come check out her eastern Iowa farm.
She says the horses showed up at her place south of Solon, Iowa, at dusk on Wednesday.
Paulsen says she and her husband, Lanc
Linda Jones makes it no secret that Katy is the light of her life. Purchasing the Saddlebred mare six years ago fulfilled a dream Jones had nurtured since childhood. And she was determined to get their relationship off on the right foot. From day
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