Cattle

Scientists study the interactions that affect acceptance of a new technology used for animal welfare: gene editing.

Internationally famed animal scientist Temple Grandin will join Washington State University researchers and Pacific Northwest farmers and artisans at the Country Living Expo and Cattlemen’s Winterschool, co-hosted by WSU Extension, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, in Stanwood, Wash. Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, livestock industry consultant and autism spokesperson, will give […]

In cattle production, nothing is more important than fertility. Without it, herds can’t grow and milk doesn’t flow. For decades, fertility in U.S. dairy cattle has been on a drastic decline. Every failure to conceive throws off the herd’s delicate rhythm of production, making it harder for farmers to deliver milk and other foods we […]

Historic Twin Vista Ranch, part of Washington State University agricultural extension, recently earned certified organic status.

Comprehensive Effort to Create Sustainable Fertilizers Phosphorus recycled from human and animal waste for plant fertilizer could ease demand for the dwindling, increasingly expensive rock-mined element. Scientists at WSU have found plants flourish with struvite, a waste ingredient composed of magnesium, nitrogen, and phosphorous. Teamed with Multiform Harvest, a Seattle phosphorous recovery company, the researchers […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Department of Animal Science is offering a cattle artificial insemination short course in Pullman, Aug. 9 – 11. The course will be taught by David DeAvila, a WSU instructor who has extensive experience in AI and in teaching AI to WSU undergraduates. The course will be limited to 12 […]

SPOKANE, Wash. — Ranchers across the country will want to tune in for the Ranchers’ Forum. The Forum is scheduled for the Society for Range Management’s annual meeting on January 31, 2012. Topics include Keeping the Family Ranch in the Family, Crooked Calf Syndrome, and Sage Grouse and the Endangered Species Act. Although the Forum […]

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Society for Range Management has made special provisions this year to offer its annual Ranchers’ Forum nationally by webinar, announced Forum coordinator Tom Platt of Washington State University Extension in Davenport, Wash. The Ranchers’ Forum is scheduled for January 31 as part of SRM’s annual meeting in Spokane. The Forum will […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — Recently released results from the nutrition component of the Pilot Grazing Project conducted in 2009 in southeast Washington reveal that moderate spring cattle grazing affected both the amount and some nutritional properties of forages available to mule deer in spring and fall.

You and I have our challenges and some real worries, too. There are bills to pay and doctors to visit, to say nothing of mulling over those strange sounds coming from the rear of the car. But I confess I thought the life of a cow was rather placid.