A University of Missouri beef economist’s outlook shows a $250 return per cow in the coming year. In the previous beef cycle, returns topped at under $100 per cow.

A steer that made a break for it while on the way to slaughter in North Dakota has been adopted by a Michigan farm animal sanctuary and spared from the butcher knife.

Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.

There are more cattle on feed in South Dakota now than last year.

Drought has had a widespread impact on all areas of the beef industry. To stay in business, water is the name of the game.

A bankruptcy judge has set a closing date for the sale of a failed South Dakota beef packing plant.