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Hall of fame inducts notable beef and dairy veterinarians

John Herrick, D.V.M., and Jim Jarrett, D.V.M., were posthumously honored as distinguished inductees to the Cattle Production Veterinarian Hall of Fame (CPVHOF), sponsored by the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP), Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC), Bovine Veterinarian, Merck Animal Health and Osborn Barr, an agricultural marketing and communications company.

News from the Cattle Feeders Business Summit

Representatives from Merck Animal Health discussed implant shortages and introduced a powerful new app for cattle feeders this week during their Cattle Feeders Summit in Denver.

Legendary veterinarians nominated for industrywide honor

Five individuals, representing more than 200 years of service in cattle production medicine, have been selected by their peers as nominees for the Cattle Production Veterinarian Hall of Fame

Clearing the air on sustainable beef

On March 14, Drovers/CattleNetwork hosted a Beef Sustainability webinar, providing scientific insights on modern beef production and its environmental impacts. The webinar, sponsored by Merck Animal Health, featured Washington State University animal scientist Jude Capper, PhD, and University of California-Davis atmospheric scientist Frank Mitloehner, PhD.

Sustainable-beef initiative moves forward

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, a coalition of stakeholder companies and organizations interested in the future of beef production, has registered as a non-profit organization in Switzerland.

Breaking down carcass value

A beef carcass today is worth about $190 per hundredweight, but that total, of course, represents an average value for all components of the carcass, from tenderloins and strip steaks to 50 percent lean trimmings and even bones.

More beef for the buck

With feed prices and beef prices at historically high levels, a product that produces more beef with the same volume of feed seems a wise investment. That was a key take-home message from an event Merck Animal Health hosted last week to update media representatives on the use of their Zilmax feed additive in feedyards.

Here's the beef

Meat-science professor Ty Lawrence, director of West Texas A&M's Beef Carcass Research Center, takes us into the cooler to see the results of feeding a beta agonist to Holstein steers.

Cattle Production Veterinarian Hall of Fame

Hundreds of cattle production veterinarians gathered to celebrate the central role that veterinarians have in food production and recognize two men for their incredible contributions to the industry.

Merck Animal Health awards $12,000 to top bovine veterinary students

Eight bovine veterinary students from across the United States each received $1,500 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) annual conference in St. Louis Sept. 21-24.