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Rice production in 2004 totaled a record high 231 million cwt.

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The production management practices provided below reflect industry guidelines that have been provided to producers to reduce the presence of food-safety pathogens in beef cattle products.

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• Best Practices
  Beef Industry Food Safety Council (BIFSCo)
• Beef Cattle Practices
  National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS)
• Beef Cattle Production
  Kansas Food*A*Syst
• Beef Cattle Production Best Management Practices
  LSU AgCenter
• Developing a Food Defense Plan for Meat and Poultry Slaughter and Processing Plants (228KB PDF)
  USDA FSIS
• Foreign Object Contamination in Beef Cattle (525KB PDF)
  Utah State University Extension
• Biosecurity Basics for Cattle Operations and Good Management Practices for Controlling Infectious Diseases
  University of Nebraska Extension