This week’s holiday-shortened harvest, coupled with recent advances in boxed beef prices and stronger Live Cattle futures should prove supportive to fed cattle prices.

The use of camera grading in America’s beef plants has improved the accuracy, precision and consistency of grading from plant to plant and from lot to lot of cattle, regardless of where they were harvested.

Eastern Missouri Commission Co. owner Mike VanMaanen will serve a two-year term leading the national, member-led organization.

Professor Dan Shike was appointed interim head for the Department of Animal Sciences (ANSC), part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

U.S. Meat Export Federation Chair Randy Spronk, a pork producer from Edgerton, Minn., notes a sense of optimism among attendees for the remainder of 2024.

Veterinarians at Kansas State University discuss summer grazing management techniques that can help improve animal performance and pasture productivity.