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Snow is falling across a large portion of Montana today, bringing relief to areas struggling to control multiple wildfires.

Fires continue to rage in the Northwest portion of the country. New numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the cost of fighting wildfirestopped $2 billion in 2017, a new record. Agriculture Secretary Sonny

A member of Brazil۪s billionaire Batista family should be declared guilty of fostering anti-competitive practices in the domestic cattle slaughtering market more than a decade ago, a body at antitrust watchdog Cade rec

Online food sales are reshaping how consumers buy beef.

Horn flies are blood feeding flies that impact production on cattle operations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture again raised U.S. corn and soybean yields on Tuesday to the dismay of many doubting analysts.

Cattle breeding systems are the key to long-term, cost-conscious, efficient beef production.

U.S. live cattle futures eased slightly in a technical selloff on Thursday after prices earlier notched a two-week high, traders said.

The billionaire Batista brothers۪ involvement in insider trading and bribery of politicians is causing turmoil in Brazil.

Jason Clay describes how the goals of the World Wildlife Fund mesh with those of modern agriculture.

Purdue’s Mike Boehlje offers guidance to attendees at the Tomorrow’s Top Producers Conference held recently in Nashville, Tenn.

The LMIC is forecasting that calf (500-to 600-pound steer) prices in the Southern Plains will average above 2016۪s depressed quarterly average this fall (October-December).

Cattle market prices are up from a year ago as China has lifted its ban on U.S. beef.

U.S. live cattle futures climbed more than 1 percent on Wednesday, rebounding after two straight sessions of declines on technical buying and hopes cattle fetch steady to higher prices this week in Plains cash markets,

Manure from livestock producers, both large and small, is recognized as a valuable fertilizer source.

Certain units of JBS SA , the world۪s largest meatpacker, on Wednesday suspended cattle purchases temporarily following the arrest of Chief Executive Wesley Batista, a source familiar with the matter said.

The USDA released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) on Tuesday morning, which should prove to be neutral to slightly bullish.

Recognizing the areas in which you lack proficiency will help you fill those spots with experts to move your operation forward.

The prototype is named the ZR5 self-propelled baler.

The National Cattlemen۪s Beef Association releases the second video in its month-long media campaign to promote comprehensive tax reform. The first video, which was posted on Sept. 6, was viewed more than 109,000 time

Dates for one of the premier production beef cattle symposiums in the country have been set.

Heavy rain and wind damage are the primary effects on cattlemen from Florida, Alabama and Georgia. An early start to the fall calving season has come thanks to Hurricane Irma.

For the second time this week a member of the Batista family, owners of the world's largest meat packing company, has been arrested in Brazil.

U.S. livestock and grain producers visited Japan Sept. 3-8 to meet with buyers of U.S. pork and beef and get a firsthand look at this leading international market for U.S. red meat.

Over a cattle inventory cycle (typically 10 to 11 years), seasonally cull cow prices typically are lowest in the fourth (fall) quarter of the calendar year (usually November and sometimes October or December).

Prickly Pear is one of those tenacious, tough to handle weeds that you hate to find growing in your pastures and hay fields.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures tumbled to an 11-month low in a bear-spreading selloff linked to big U.S. hog supplies and declines in cash markets, traders said.

Competition for grocery sales intensifies as Walmart expands online marketplace.

Spring calving herds across the Midwest and Southwest will soon be planning to wean the calves.

Market prices moved very little last week, but both sectors saw modest increases in their profit margins.

Spotting and dealing with change before it charges through the gate is a high-wire act and part of farming survival.

Meat and poultry exports were a mixed bag, while beef imports were on the rise.

The FDA this week issued a safety alert to remind producers, veterinarians and health-care providers of potential safety hazards in using Micotil 300 (tilmicosin). Micotil 300 is a prescription injectable antibiotic use

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will update its U.S. corn and soybean yield estimates on Tuesday at noon EDT, and analysts are once again banking on declines, though the mild weather in August might not fully support

If dairy or beef producers lose 20% or more of their herd, how upset would they be?

Brazil۪s total beef exports in August rose by 34 percent year-on-year both by volume and in revenue terms, industry group Abiec said on Monday, indicating the worst of a food safety scandal that rocked Brazil۪s protei

Tyson Foods Inc, the biggest U.S. meat company, shut meat plants in Georgia and Florida on Monday because of Hurricane Irma, a spokesman said, reducing its output of chicken and beef products.

From its early inception, the vegetarian movement has undergone a radical reconfiguration, and the marketing of the new wave of alt-meat products is proof of its newfound positioning.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and lean hog futures were flat to narrowly mixed on Monday as investors consolidated positions ahead of a government livestock and crop report due on Tuesday, traders and analysts

A focus on quality and cooperation between segments has pulled beef back from the brink

Further evidence of beef۪s quality revolution is found in the significant increase in carcasses grading Choice and Prime.

Strong stocker demand for fall and winter grazing may limit seasonal price pressure this fall.

University of Arkansas researchers are part of the technology design and life-cycle analysis to convert wastewater byproduct to fertilizer.

The corruption scandal in Brazil continues to develop as JBS co-owner Joesley Batista turns himself in to authorities.

More than 500 cattle paraded through a ring in northern Japan in the Wagyu Olympics to win prizes and renown as the most fertile - and mouth-watering - examples of wagyu beef, increasingly popular among foodies around

The old question kept coming back: Would the extra calves really pencil out if the center stocked 1,100-pound cows instead of 1,400-pound cows?And then more questions: Would those small cows actually carry the load? Cou

Packers have held leverage over cattle feeders for several weeks now and have been able to push prices lower.

Brazil۪s top prosecutor asked the country۪s Supreme Court late on Friday to approve the arrest of billionaire Joesley Batista, one of the owners of the worlds largest meatpacker JBS SA, a person with knowledge of the

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