Science news articles about 'beef cattle'

... , can significantly reduce the concentrations of antibiotics in the manure. Scientists found that composting manure from beef cattle could reduce concentrations of antibiotics by more than 99 percent.

... sciences at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and a member of K-State's Beef Cattle Institute, says it is in producers' best interests to take good care of their cattle.

... of this four-gene region, described in the open access journal BMC Genetics, should be useful in breeding beef cattle. Akiko Takasuga, from the Shirakawa Institute of Animal Genetics, led a team of ...

... passing through the sand columns ranged from less than 2% for one of the horse isolates to 95% for one of the beef cattle isolates and the fitted model parameters ranged by a factor of 50 for the ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- The U. S. Department of Agriculture has approved a new vaccine to reduce the prevalence of E. coli O157 in beef cattle.

... "This technology is quickly transforming the dairy genetics industry and has the potential to dramatically alter beef cattle industries as well," Dr Barendse said. These new genetic tools may provide ...