TOPEKA, Kan. – Featured presentations about consumer buying habits, where the cattle market is headed the next 12 months and international beef trade will highlight the educational program at the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) Convention, November 30 through December 2 in Wichita. Committee and council meetings where members will have policy discussions about issues important […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn’t been found or isn’t widespread, said field trial […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding today visited a free drive-through rabies clinic being hosted in partnership by the Harrisburg Humane Society, Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement, and Merck Animal Health in a parking lot of the Harrisburg Community College. September 28 is World Rabies Day; a global health observance recognized to raise awareness […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — After a year-long postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State’s Ag Progress Days is back with a full schedule of demonstrations, activities and learning for all ages. The expo begins Aug. 10 and continues through Aug. 12 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs in Ferguson […]

BROOMFIELD, Colo. — The Colorado Departments of Agriculture and Public Health and Environment, in collaboration with Tri-County Health Department, have confirmed that a miniature horse in Adams county has tested positive for rabies. This is the second case of rabies in domestic livestock in Colorado this year; the first case was a mule in January […]