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Restrictions On Antibiotic Use For Production Purposes In U.S. Hogs And Broilers Likely To Have Modest Effects On Prices, Quantities

Restrictions on antibiotic use for production purposes in U.S. hogs and broilers likely to have modest effects on prices, quantities
 
Livestock farmers use antibiotics to treat, control, and prevent disease, and also for production purposes, such as increasing growth and feed efficiency. A new U.S. Food and Drug Administration initiative seeks to eliminate the use of medically important antibiotics for production purposes. 
 
ERS research shows that only a portion of hog and broiler producers use antibiotics for production purposes, and the productivity increases from such uses are 1-3 percent. 
 
Modelling the effect of production-specific antibiotic restrictions suggests that such a policy would have a modest effect on wholesale prices and quantities produced of chicken and pork—less than a 1-percent increase in wholesale prices and a net decline in production of less than 0.5 percent. Because prices increase more than quantities decrease, gross revenues (price times quantity) would increase slightly.
 

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How Morning Chores Are Done On Our Sheep Farm

Video: How Morning Chores Are Done On Our Sheep Farm

At Ewetopia Farms, we show you how our daily morning chores are done on our working sheep farm. In the summer, this would also involve letting the sheep out to pasture. But it is fall in Canada, and most of our sheep are currently in breeding groups, and the pastures are eaten off, so most of the sheep are being fed indoors until the end of winter. What is a little different in our farm routine in this sheep farming vlog is that we have a customer drop by to pick up one of our Suffolk rams for breeding to their flock so we load him up and have a look at the ram they picked out.