Several bills have been introduced to the U.S. House and Senate that would affect the agricultural community. The DAIRY PRIDE ACT of 2021, the Kids Eat Local Act, and the Agriculture Resilience Act all intend to support farmers and ranchers.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, a national marketing, and research program designed to increase the demand for beef at home and abroad, has launched a new marketing campaign focused on sustainability.

A bipartisan bill was recently introduced to the Senate by John Thune (R-SD) and Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to ensure farmers can still plant beneficial cover crops after delays due to severe weather prevent them without facing crop insurance penalties.

The United States and the United Arab Emirates announced plans to launch the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate).

The United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has announced a virtual Animal Biotechnology Stakeholder Outreach Session that is open to the public.

Three Californian physicians, Seth Ammerman, MD, Donald Forrester, MD, and Heather Shenkman, MD, along with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit organization of 17,000 physicians, have filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the amount of dairy recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), published in December 2020.

A study recently published in the Journal of Animal Science modeled the inclusion of a group of external birds into a local broiler chicken population, using either a fixed effect representing the origin of parents, unknown parent groups, or metafounders for the purpose of genomic evaluations.

A study recently published in the Journal of Animal Science evaluated the use of the commercially available GreenFeed system for measuring enteric gas emissions from cattle.

A paper recently published in the Journal of Animal Science evaluated the relationships among intramammary health, udder/teat characteristics, and productivity of extensively managed ewes.

A study recently published in the Journal of Animal Science investigated the optimum proportion of grape pomace in finishing cattle diets.

A paper recently published in the Journal of Animal Science aimed to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for growth curve parameters derived from Richards growth model and the correlations of growth curve parameters with body weights and harvest length in American mink.

Recently, Kerr et al. published “Influence of feeding thermally peroxidized lipids on growth performance, lipid digestibility and oxidative status in nursery pigs” in the Journal of Animal science to critically evaluate the impact of inclusions of differentially sourced lipids and thermally processed soybean oil in nursery pig diets.

The authors of this recent Journal of Animal Science study evaluated how trace amounts of antibiotics impacted the health and growth of weaned pigs.

The authors of this recent Journal of Animal Science study compared the carcass characteristics and growth performance of growing-finishing pigs when feed requirements were determined based on STTD Ca versus total Ca.

A study recently published in the Journal of Animal Science aimed to evaluate the intestinal inflammatory response during the post-weaning period in piglets.

Dr. Richard Coffey, from University of Kentucky, is looking forward to seeing everyone at the July meeting in Louisville whether you are attending in person or virtually.

The authors of this recent Journal of Animal Science study hypothesized that Lactobacillus-fermented plant extracts would offset these negative effects by ameliorating oxidative stress.

In this recent Journal of Animal Science study, researchers looked at the estimated breeding values (EBV) and genomic EBV (GEBV) in a population of American Angus cattle for one year.

The authors of this recent Journal of Animal Science study evaluated the effects of fumonisin on cattle at concentrations below and above the current FDA maximum allowed levels.

My fifteen years at ASAS equates to planning 16 national meetings, more than 50 sectional meetings, 10 meetings outside the United States and a variety of smaller specialty meetings.