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New Zealand’s Herd-i parlor-exit cameras score locomotion and body condition every milking; one farm analysis reported 38% fewer lameness treatments and 41% fewer lameness antibiotics.

October SDRS data show PRRSV positivity still climbing in wean-to-market pigs near 45%, with PEDV facility detections up and Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae easing.

Kansas Flint Hills ranchers describe GPS and satellite smart collars for virtual fencing and herd location, paired with forage maps, as everyday tools on family operations.

APHIS confirmed Arizona’s first New World screwworm case in a dog, amid late-October detections in New Mexico and Texas, as U.S. cases reach about 71.

Two thefts near Alva, Oklahoma took 53 steers and 31 calves, and owners and a local stockyard have put up a US$10,000 reward.

An elk taken on a Pecos County, Texas game farm is the first wildlife case since screwworm was detected in the U.S. in June.

Three New Mexico counties reported new screwworm cases in one week, and officials are widening surveillance zones.

Imported cattle now carry electronic tags, and each animal's ID is recorded on the paperwork that travels with it.

USDA's October Cattle on Feed report shows the smallest September placements and marketings since 1996.