by Beef News | Jul 9, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy, Health
After nearly a year of emergency closures, U.S. cattle ports are beginning to reopen—starting with Douglas, Arizona, with Columbus and Santa Teresa, New Mexico expected next. That means live cattle from Mexico are once again flowing north, tagged, dipped, and...
by Beef News | Jul 7, 2025 | Health, Business, Cowboy Talk
On July 7, 2025, the USDA will reopen the U.S.-Mexico cattle border under a phased biosecurity protocol. The agency insists the move is justified: no northward screwworm spread in eight weeks, a surge in sterile fly deployment, and updated import restrictions that...
by Beef News | Jul 2, 2025 | Health, Science, Technology
Editor’s Note: This report is based on internal BIO meeting minutes (download available at the end of this article) leaked by anonymous sources and originally published by Brownstone.org. These statements reflect the document’s contents and have not been independently...
by Beef News | Jun 26, 2025 | Farm Policy, Health
They infected the milk in a lab.They kept it cold.Then they told you to be afraid of your local farm. Welcome to the latest installment of “weaponized food fear.” On June 3, 2025, AgDaily published the headline: “Live bird flu virus can survive in raw milk for a...
by Beef News | Jun 14, 2025 | Technology, Farm Policy, Health
Starting summer 2026, England will require all newborn calves to have electronic ID (EID) tags, replacing visual-only ear tags for effective disease tracing through a new cattle movement reporting system — a sweeping modernization of livestock tracking that aims to...
by Beef News | Jun 14, 2025 | Farm Policy, Business, Health
In an extraordinary reversal on May 6, 2025, North Carolina lawmakers scrapped a proposed ban on raw milk sales in the annual Farm Act, opting instead to study broader availability after a wave of bipartisan pressure and public outrage. Once condemned by Agriculture...
