Sales of medically important antibiotics for use in U.S. livestock farming rose over four percent in 2022, compared to a year earlier, and show an overall upward trend since 2018, risking greater ...

In 1946, producers discovered that adding antibiotics to feed increased animal growth, and industry profits. This sub-therapeutic dosing also allowed livestock to survive filthy, overcrowded ...

Antibiotics are one category of antimicrobials ... The guidance applies to all food animals, including cattle, hogs, ruminants (goats/sheep) and poultry. In addition, it also applies to animals ...

The VFAs also become the cattle’s main energy source. In the 1970s, farmers began using antibiotics to increase the amount of energy beef cattle could extract from feed. The antibiotics also ...

Farming seems to have been overrun by reams of paperwork, rules and red tape over the past few years. It has led many to ...

Data for 2024 show the use of antibiotics in chickens dropped by 50% over the last 7 years. In Iowa, livestock, including hogs, are mostly raised in large corporate confinements - which are known ...

The dairy sector has achieved further reductions of antibiotics usage without compromising ... reduction of AMU has caused health issues in livestock. Dr Tim Potter, Westpoint Farm Vets’ senior ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a method to enable portable glucometers to detect antibiotic ...

Aureomycin is still widely used in cattle today. Such an antibiotic discovery is estimated to cost $1.5 billion in 2023 dollars. “We’ve more aureomycin discoveries out here, we’ve just got ...

Farmers are being blamed for antibiotic abuse in livestock production which poses a great threat to the public health. So how do farmers contribute to antibiotics abuse? As a farmer you have ...

Farmers are being blamed for antibiotic abuse in livestock production which poses a great threat to the public health. As a farmer you have directly or indirectly through a veterinary doctor used ...