USDA Announces $824 Million in New Funding to Protect Livestock Health; Launches Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced it is taking several additional actions to ensure the health and viability of the nation’s livestock and poultry. In the two months since the initial detection of H5N1 in dairy cattle, USDA has worked quickly and in concert with its federal and state partners to better understand the virus and contain the disease and remains committed to seeking additional ways to collect the data needed to better understand and mitigate the risk created by this outbreak.
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USDA and FarmRaise Launch Additional Online Disaster Assistance Decision Tool for Livestock, Honey Bee and Farm-Raised Fish Producers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in partnership with FarmRaise, today launched a new, online Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees and Farm-raised Fish Program (ELAP) Decision Tool. The USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) tool is designed to assist agricultural producers who have been impacted by natural disasters access available program support. This ELAP Decision Tool, a component of a broader disaster assistance program educational module, further expands the library of online FSA disaster and farm loan program reference resources and decision aids currently available to agricultural producers on the FarmRaise FSA educational hub.
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The Delta Rancher Newsletter: Second Quarter 2024
In this quarterly installment of the Delta Rancher, we have a timely write up from Dr Twidwell, our state forage extension specialist that outlines several warm season annual options. We are quickly approaching the planting date for many of these varieties. The addition of a warm season annual can dramatically change the game for a producer when they are developing a summertime grazing plan! Next, we have an article from Dr Neely Heidorn, our state equine extension specialist that gives us some quality recommendations on feeding an aging horse.
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Minimizing Impacts Of Climate Change On Livestock
Recent weather extremes, which include record heat and cold as well as drought and flooding, have made it especially difficult to maintain the health and production of livestock in Louisiana.
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USDA Expands Support for Producers to Stop the Spread of H5N1 in Dairy Cattle
Since the detection of H5N1 in dairy cattle in March, USDA has worked swiftly and diligently to assess the prevalence of the virus in U.S. dairy herds and to use the latest scientific data to learn about the virus and to quickly contain the disease event. As part of this multifaceted approach, on May 10, USDA announced several financial assistance options for producers with affected herds.
USDA is announcing the expansion of some of these support options to include dairy producers whose herds have not tested positive for H5N1.
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Tiger Lake Livestock Auction: May 22, 2024
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Red River Livestock Auction: May 22, 2024
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Kinder Livestock Auction: May 20, 2024
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Richland, Caldwell Parish Deputies Investigate Death of Two Cattle
The Richland Parish Sheriff’s Office, Caldwell Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Livestock Brand Commission are investigating the death of two cattle.
According to RPSO, the incident happened off Highway 561 near the Beouf River sometime between May 11 and May 17.
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NatGLC 2024 Conference Scholarship Application
Louisiana GLCI will be offering partial scholarships for travel and conference tickets to 10 farmers/ranchers from Louisiana and Mississippi.
The application deadline is June 15, 2024
Decisions will be released by Sept 1, 2024 or before.
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Red River Livestock Auction: May 15, 2024
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Tiger Lake Livestock Auction: May 15, 2024
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Kinder Livestock Auction: May 13, 2024
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PRCA Rodeo to Bring Cowboys, Revenue to Town
The 66th annual Deep South PRCA Rodeo will be held May 16 through May 18 starting at 8 p.m. nightly in Winnsboro.
The kid’s rodeo will be May 11 at 2 p.m. and the annual rodeo parade will be May 18 at 3 p.m. Both weekends are full of “family, friendly entertainment” with everyone invited to attend, according to Buckshot Sims, rodeo director.
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Cow Country Reporter: May 2024
The last week in April three of your Executive Committee members, Mike Kovac, Dave Sanson and myself, made a trip to West Texas. We visited a Red Angus Ranch in Whitesboro, TX and the Bradley 3 Ranch near Childress, TX. Both ranches gave us contact information as well as insight into different operations and how they manage their cattle operations. James Henderson, one of the 3 in B3R, shared his wisdom of his cattle operation and 18 years of running their processing plant.
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