Kenny Rogers, Colorado Livestock Association president congratulates newly elected president Kory Kessinger at the CLA annual meeting July 15 to 16 in Black Hawk, Colorado. (Courtesy photo.)

Colorado livestock industry comes together at CLA Annual Meeting

K-State veterinarian Bob Larson says cattle cannot transmit lumpy jaw or wooden tongue to each other. Groups of animals only contract the diseases when consuming the same coarse grasses. (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)

Cattle Chat: Look out for lumpy jaw and other facial diseases

  • By Jacob Klaudt │ K-State Research and Extension news service
White loco weed, Oxytropis sericea, catches the late afternoon sunlight in a high mountain meadow. This wildflower has beautiful white blossoms on stalks up to 18 inches high, but it is said to be very toxic to humans and livestock. It is indigenous most of the western United States, from the plains into high mountain areas. (Photo: iStock - chapin31)

Watch out for locoweed: profile of a killer plant

  • By Micah Most │ University of Wyoming Extension
K-State veterinary toxicologist Steve Ensley says lactating animals have a higher chance of becoming water deprived, given their additional fluid needs for milk production. (Photo: K-State Research and Extension news service)

High heat intensifying water deprivation in confined livestock

  • By Jacob Klaudt │ K-State Research and Extension news service
Two pigs walking. (Photo by Natalie Sleichter.)

Grant to help pork industry with immigrant labor

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Equine West Nile virus case reported in northwest Oklahoma 

RCALF USA’s Bullard to speak at Kansas event

Grazing cover crops with beef cattle increases soil organic carbon stocks and potassium concentrations in grazed plots, according to a study from Kansas State University. (K-State Research and Extension news service)

Cargill invests $1 million in research to reduce methane from cattle