Cow Earns Montana Rancher a Free Drink
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BOZEMAN, Mont. - Rancher Skip Hougland figured it was an offer he couldn't refuse: Bring in a cow, get a free frozen blended coffee beverage...
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A dairy farmer who faced selling his cloned cow for hamburger because of a bitter family business dispute said Friday he struck a deal with neighbors to spare the animal from the slaughterhouse.
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Sergio Madrigal watched in despair as federal officials hauled away his 449 calves to be killed after the nation's first case of mad cow disease was discovered in a nearby dairy cow. A year later, Madrigal looks out at his rebuilt herd and smiles &#151; just one of many signs that American ranchers suffered few long-term ill effects from the cow that ruined Christmas 2003.
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CALGARY -- Canadian cattle producers should be celebrating the scheduled reopening of the US border to live Canadian cattle today.
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RENO, Nevada  - Cattle producers voted this weekend to increase the fee that they pay to finance the "Beef, It's What's For Dinner" advertising campaign and other programs, because inflation and other costs have eroded the buying power of the current rate.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - A final laboratory test has  confirmed an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second  case Canada has found in its herd, an industry source briefed  by veterinary officials said on Sunday.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 13--A few months ago a friend who lives in Montana dangled a tempting carrot in front of me.   He invited me to join him in September on a backcountry bow hunt for elk in Western Montana.
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By DEAN BAKER  Dairies are disappearing from Clark County, but the dairy women's organization is still going strong and aims to show a lot of suburban children what a cow looks like and where milk comes from.
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There's nothing like a tender steak from a free-range, grass-fed, hormone-free, antibiotic-free, organic and -- oh, yes -- cloned cow.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A final laboratory test has confirmed that an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second case Canada has found in its herd, an industry source briefed by veterinary officials said yesterday. "It is positive," the industry source told reporters after a briefing from the agency. The animal did not enter the human or animal food ...
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By Henckel, Mark  To have fish, you need water On Montana's portion of the Bighorn River, below Yellowtail Dam, the more water you have, the more fish you get.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The international Bovine Genome Sequencing Project has posted the first draft of the genome sequence of cows into free public databases for use by medical and agricultural researchers.
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LEDUC, Alberta -- After losing money for 18 months because of mad cow restrictions, Ed Wedman is advertising for hunters willing to pay $500 ($420 in US dollars) to shoot a Holstein steer and take the meat.
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Staff Sgt. Nathan Pike grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. The other day he was feeding cows in Kosovo.
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Great news for beer and milk lovers: A liquor shop owner in Japan's largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilt milk and started making beer from it instead.
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Scientists have created a genetic map of a cow, giving researchers a new tool to reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition of beef and dairy products.