Frank and Sims Price Ranch, Sterling City, Texas, was named the national winner of the National Cattlemen’s Foundation Environmental Stewardship Award Program.

Since 2009, the Kansas Beef Council and Nebraska Beef Council have provided funding and support of the nutrition and dietetics program at the New York Beef Industry Council.

Cattle quality has been on the rise in Eastern Kentucky for several years now. Beef producers have a local stockyard to sell their animals, and now there’s a place for those cattle to be processed and sold to Kentucky consumers.

The USDA feeder cattle report for the week ending January 31 confirmed the inventory drop showing cattle and calves nearly 2% lower than last year’s numbers.

State officials are reminding Nebraska ranchers and feedlot operators about new rules requiring them to report certain cattle illnesses shortly after they’re found.

Those attending the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4-7 should be sure to pack their comfortable walking shoes. The NCBA Trade Show – for years, the beef cattle industry’s largest – is getting bigger, adding more than 30 exhibitors and thousands of square feet of booth space.