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Additional Livestock Risk Protection Coverage offers new opportunities for Michigan producers

Published on August 22, 2025
Use of Livestock Risk Protection insurance continues to increase for feeder cattle, fed cattle, and swine operations in Michigan.
MSU Extension offers two Emergency Response to Accidents Involving Livestock (ERAIL) trainings at the MSU Farm Bureau Pavilion

Published on August 19, 2025
Equipment for safely extricating livestock from trucks/trailers and containing animals after transport accidents will be shown in the first in-person training. Euthanasia training covers identifying compromised animals and humane euthanasia.
MSU offers free webinar series on Immigration Essentials for Farm Employers

Published on August 19, 2025
MSU offers free webinar series on Immigration Essentials for Farm Employers.
Cottage cheese: A TikTok famous staple

Published on August 13, 2025
Learn more about this dairy product that recently went viral on TikTok through some recipes and other interesting facts.
Farming through the haze

Published on August 13, 2025
Michigan has been intermittently blanketed with wildfire haze over the past several years. Learn more about the importance of monitoring your local air quality index (AQI) and how to work safely on high AQI days.
How do you stay informed on the latest agricultural info?

Published on August 8, 2025
Take part in a survey from a joint MSU Extension and The Ohio State University research project on how we communicate the latest agriculture research and news.
Building a HACCP team

Published on August 7, 2025
A good HACCP plan consists of more than one person writing something down and filing it in a binder to collect dust on the shelf.
A personal story: Adriana’s fight for life against bovine tuberculosis

Published on August 7, 2025
Frequently, stories of bovine TB revolve around deer or cattle. These are important in that they focus on the impact to family businesses. But the untold story is what happens when a person becomes infected. This is part of Adriana’s story.
MSU Extension offers two Emergency Response to Accidents Involving Livestock (ERAIL) trainings in the Upper Peninsula

Published on August 7, 2025
Equipment for safely extricating livestock from trucks/trailers and containing animals after transport accidents will be shown in the first in-person training. Euthanasia training covers identifying compromised animals and humane euthanasia.
Dairy spotlight: Robert Tempelman

Published on August 6, 2025
Tempelman is a quantitative geneticist with key research interests in statistical genetic modeling applied to various problems in dairy cattle breeding.