The global livestock industry is fascinatingly different in many ways, yet remarkably similar in others. My first stop was Ireland for the annual Tullamore Show and the European Hereford Conference in Kilkenny. The Tullamore Show is a one-day event featuring all...

Horn flies are costing the cattle industry billions of dollars every year. Controlling horn flies with chemical insecticides is not working because horn flies have been able to develop a resistance to all the chemical insecticides that have been used in the last 80...