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THIS MONTH'S TOPIC:
Vaccination
Worried about disease striking your herd? You're not alone. The uncertainty of when and where disease might strike has made vaccination increasingly important. Learn more in this month's Health Focus about why, when and how cattle should be vaccinated.
FEATURE STORY:
Immunizing Beef Calves: A Preconditioning Immunization Concept
Infectious diseases cause sickness and death in calves, before or after they are born. Unborn and nursing calves are at high risk to fatal diseases during the time of year when a beef rancher is calving cows, moving and mixing these cows, and bringing in bulls to them.
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- TAI CHI COWS
World Entertainment News Network, April 14, 2008
A dairy farmer has discovered an unusual way to relax his herd and increase milk yields.
- ''Cows' Day Off'' a Success!-New Source of Calcium in Pasta has Cows Wanting More Time to Enjoy the Good Life
Business Wire, January 14, 2008
Time flies when you're not ruminating all day. That's what America's cows learned on their first ever "Cows' Day Off".
- How Cows Went to 'Moo' a Meadow
Coventry Evening Telegraph, January 14, 2008
A herd of cattle is making short work of the grass at a Coventry beauty spot.
- Holy cow! Elusive bovine is back; no, it's gone again
The Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts, January 05, 2008
Nobody knows where it came from, or how it keeps disappearing.
- ''Cows' Day Off'' Declared-New Source of Calcium from Pasta Elicits Moos of Relief on Dairy Farms Nationwide
Business Wire, December 18, 2007
The grass just got greener for our bovine friends thanks to "Cows' Day Off".
- Dairy farms in tight squeeze over use of hormones
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 17, 2007
The first letter from Dairy Marketing Services arrived in August, containing what John Ligo saw as a not-so-veiled threat.
- Dairy farms in tight squeeze over use of hormones
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 17, 2007
The first letter from Dairy Marketing Services arrived in August, containing what John Ligo saw as a not-so-veiled threat.
- Failure to yield ... to a holstein?
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December 15, 2007
It was dark and late the night the cows got out.
- Failure to yield ... to a holstein?
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December 15, 2007
It was dark and late the night the cows got out.
- Mayor joins impromptu cattle drive
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 17, 2007
Mayor Bill Boyd has had to wrangle through borough business from time to time. But he was on a roundup Thursday -- face-to-face with some intimidating intruders, a herd of nine cattle that meandered into town.
- Holy cow! Reidsville's got some crazy floats
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November 16, 2007
Todd Vernon is proud of his contribution to Sunday night's Reidsville Christmas parade. It's a 12-feet tall cow, decorated with bows, lights and tinsel.
- Chick-fil-A's 'Eat Mor Chikin' Cows One-Up Themselves with the 2008 'One-Hit Wonder' Calendar-America's Best-selling Calendar - FREE this Year with the Purchase of a $20 Card - is the Gift that Keeps On Giving All Year Long with Valuable Monthly Coupons
PR Newswire, November 14, 2007
Moove over Randy, Paula and Simon. The vote is in and the Chick-fil-A "Eat Mor Chikin(R)" Cows are the latest music sensation.
- The Grande Dame of Dairy Brooks Couple Think Their Farm Is Home to the Oldest Cow in Maine
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME, November 13, 2007
If Nonny were a dog, she'd be 140 years old.
- Hats Off to the Real-life Cowboys
Tulsa World, November 11, 2007
It's possible to be standing next to one of the most famous male country-and-western singers in the world and not know it. How? He might not be wearing his hat.
- Arcane Texas post could finally get the boot Nov. 6
USA TODAY, October 22, 2007
Texas voters will decide Nov. 6 if a long- running joke -- the elected office of "inspector of hides and animals" -- should be removed from the state constitution.
- Artsy heifer noted
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October 17, 2007
- OPINION: Magic trick: Turning cow patties into cash
Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., August 11, 2007
Judging Cow Patty Bingo is not the frivolous business you might imagine. Until you have seen a fully-fed Boone County bovine hurl a chip in the general direction of a numbered square, you have no idea the trauma a judge faces.
- The 7 Unnatural Wonders of State Fair
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 07, 2007
The State Fair is just filled with wonder - natural and unnatural.
- Moove Along ; It's Time to Say Goodbye to the Butter Cow
The State Journal-Register Springfield, IL, July 25, 2007
Let's think about retiring the butter cow.
- Second cow-napping in Chesapeake has police stumped
The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va., June 01, 2007
The cow was last seen on Interstate 464, partially clad in blue polka dot pajamas.
- Cows nibble at neighborhood
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April 22, 2007
Your neighborhood has stray cats. Palma Vista has stray cattle.
- Farming : Clover Cow Clever Art
The Press, March 16, 2007
New Zealand has dreamed up Daisy, the clover cow.
- Contest is a moo altering episode
Fort Worth Star Telegram, February 22, 2007
Grace Preparatory Academy senior Emi Kurihara could become the private school's cash cow.
- La Crosse Tribune, Wis., Autumn Grooms column: Bovines to bare all for calendar
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February 17, 2007
No airbrushing. No photoshop. And no uplifting supports.
- Dairy cow Duchess produces 'udderly' amazing milk output
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News Online, February 15, 2007
A southern Queensland dairy farmer is claiming one for the record books.
- Cows with a Taste for Beer
The Northern Echo, February 10, 2007
A farmer is giving each of his cows up to 40 pints of beer a day to produce better meat.
- Jockey's raise $125,000 riding heifers
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News Online, January 29, 2007
There was "no udder" place to be on the weekend than Australia's only cow race.
- MEATY CRIME
World Entertainment News Network, January 17, 2007
Police had an easy time tracking down some stolen meat.
- An outfit's name says it all
Fort Worth Star Telegram, January 15, 2007
Colorful ranch and farm names appear on signs and banners throughout the rows of barns at the Will Rogers Memorial Center.
- Farmyard faceoff
Fort Worth Star Telegram, January 12, 2007
Hey, Fort Worth! I'm Ryan Sowcrest, your host for tonight's episode of Stock Show Idol.
- Cow kissings cap food drive
Fort Worth Star Telegram, December 12, 2006
The holidays are a time for giving - gifts, good will and, for one certain cow, a pair of kisses.
- Moose mooooves in with Frederick herd
Aberdeen American News, November 01, 2006
It's not every day that a moose jumps your pasture fence and makes itself at home with your cows.
- Rio Could Be the Biggest Cow in the World
Western Mail, May 02, 2006
Rio is a big cow. The Charolais dwarfs others of her ilk, weighing in at 1.25 tons and standing 6ft tall and 11ft long, possibly making her the biggest cow in the world.
- SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER: STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE: A COW GOES TO A DOCTOR'S OFFICE ...
Miami Herald, February 26, 2004
There was a cow named Lola in the office of Dr. Perry Smith. The doctor was a veterinarian, after all, and the cow was not fully grown. But she was a cow.
- Farm animals inspire humor
www.newsok.com, February 01, 2004
Do sheep experience shear terror? If chickens bounce on a trampoline, do you get scrambled eggs? And there's the problem of a dog at a water meter with an out-of-order sign, and how does a mother cow with a ring in her nose talk to her daughter who wants to have her udders pierced?
- Jeff Hawkes : Have a Cow, Man
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA, October 16, 2003
Snow was falling last Christmas Eve as Jeff and Sandy Stauffer, suburbanites from Manheim Township, arrived for a gathering of friends from church at a Rapho Township farm, where Sandy looked forward to surprising her husband with a Christmas gift.
- Big wit, some cattle
The News and Observer, September 19, 2003
Baxter Black is a happy man --not just because he's beginning a tour to promote his book, but because his 10-year-old son, without being asked, got up early this morning and fed the horses. "I'm a happy man," he says in a telephone interview, "and life is good today.
- Cow tipping: Just a Cal Poly myth, or reality?-(California Poly State U.)
U-WIRE, May 12, 2003
It isn't an uncommon thing for the subject of cow tipping to arise as a possible cure to Friday- night boredom and those long, uneventful weekends, especially at Cal Poly, where the dorms lie only a few steps away from a horde of lingering, unsuspecting full-grown cows.
- Valley needs name change -- Got Milk? is available
San Jose Mercury News, November 08, 2002
We can get 'Got Milk?' Stop laughing. Why not change the name of Silicon Valley to Got Milk?
- Dairy staff feels squeeze of udder corporate greed
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, August 29, 2002
"When you put out a product that's as popular as mine, you figure you'd have a little job security, but these days, in this economy, there are just no guarantees,'' says a State Fair visitor who works at a dairy farm in Beltrami.
- Are There Good Things About a Drought?
The Topeka Capital-Journal, August 18, 2002
There's a silver lining to every dark cloud, supposedly, so I started to ponder that after a lengthy visit with experts about the drought and its rainless darkness defined by a relentless metallic glare from the sun.
- Constructing a New Food Triangle Out of Pork Chops And Beer
Insight on the News, June 25, 2002
The following purports to be a newspaper health- advice column in question-and-answer form.
- Giggle, Giggle, Quack
The Horn Book Magazine, May 16, 2002
Those crafty critters from Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (rev. 3/00) are back, creating more barnyard mischief when Farmer Brown goes on vacation and leaves his brother Bob in charge.
- Cosby Just Gets Better with Age
The State Journal-Register Springfield, IL, May 16, 2002
Bill Cosby turns 65 in July and has made jokes about his age - and its effects on his body and mind - one of the themes of his standup show.
- Good Moos: Fugitive Cow Gets New Digs
The Cincinnati Post, April 16, 2002
Cincinnati's famous fugitive cow, which captured the city's and the world's fancy by escaping from a slaughterhouse and then leading her pursuers on an 11-day odyssey, is at her new home on an animal sanctuary in New York.
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