A South Dakota-based company, is leveraging advanced bioinformatics and vaccine technology to rapidly develop vaccines for critical animal health threats.

A major grain terminal planned for the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana has been canceled. Greenfield Louisiana’s plans for an $800 million grain-export facility in Wallace has been met with pushback from advocates who don’t want to see more of what they call polluting industry in the corridor known as “cancer alley.” Greenfield, […]

Advances in dairy nutrition science may be able to deliver a 60 percent reduction in ruminant livestock enteric methane emissions in the coming years.

On August 9, a U.S. appeals court upheld a prior dismissal of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Inc. v. Vilsack case, surrounding Perdue’s chicken packaging.

After notifying a northwest Wisconsin town in October 2023 of their intent to challenge a local ordinance that regulates livestock farming, two residents made good on their promise.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Station Vegetable Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, are working to identify new sweet potato, watermelon, and pepper varieties resistant to pests that cause significant annual damage. The guava root-knot nematode, a major pest, results in millions of dollars in yield losses each year, impacting both farmers […]

Officials reported that three teenagers admitted to driving ATVs on a man’s property in Sumter County, causing the death of 200 turkeys earlier this month. 

Charles and Heather Maude, a farming couple from western South Dakota, have been indicted on theft of federal property, with charges brought against them.