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Settlement discussions are under way over a lawsuit challenging a Missouri measure making it a misdemeanor crime to promote plant-based food products as “meat.”

Ranchers in northwestern New Mexico suspect toxic plants, used in Navajo and Hopi religious ceremonies, are responsible for the recent deaths of more than a dozen cows.

Ranchers in northwestern New Mexico suspect toxic plants, used in Navajo and Hopi religious ceremonies, are responsible for the recent deaths of more than a dozen cows.

An administrative law judge has rejected a plan for public land grazing allotments that would have destroyed re-emerging sagebrush in south-central Idaho in favor of non-native plants to increase forage for livestock.

An administrative law judge has rejected a plan for public land grazing allotments that would have destroyed re-emerging sagebrush in south-central Idaho in favor of non-native plants to increase forage for livestock.

Tons of sand, sediment and silt — some in dunes as high as 10 feet — have been scattered across the eastern half to two-thirds of Nebraska by the March flooding.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has picked up his barbeque tongs to convey his message to Japan: Buy more American beef.

Local, state and federal officials along with conservation groups and logging interests have to find common ground to reduce increasingly destructive wildfires in the U.S. West, Idaho Gov. Brad Little said Tuesday.

Missouri’s prairies are disappearing and the loss is hurting the state’s ecosystem, according to a conservation expert.

Missouri’s prairies are disappearing and the loss is hurting the state’s ecosystem, according to a conservation expert.

Animal welfare groups have reached a milestone agreement with ranching interests they say would save wild mustangs from slaughter but the compromise has opened a nasty split among horse protection advocates.

Animal welfare groups have reached a milestone agreement with ranching interests they say would save wild mustangs from slaughter but the compromise has opened a nasty split among horse protection advocates.

Federal officials have released a plan to save sagebrush habitats in Western states that support cattle ranching, recreation and 350 wildlife species, including imperiled sage grouse.

Federal officials have released a plan to save sagebrush habitats in Western states that support cattle ranching, recreation and 350 wildlife species, including imperiled sage grouse.

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture says cattle losses in Nebraska from devastating March floods will be much lower than previously reported.

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture says cattle losses in Nebraska from devastating March floods will be much lower than previously reported.

A cow killer could be on the loose in Limestone County, Alabama.

A cow killer could be on the loose in Limestone County, Alabama.

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MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Stephanie Hatzenbuhler said calving has been better than expected this year, but it's no picnic.

From soy-based sliders to ground lentil sausages, plant-based meat substitutes are surging in popularity.

A 19-year-old central Wisconsin man has been charged with intentionally starving cows on his family’s farm.

An Idaho rancher says 29 of his cows died in winter storms in Washington state, but investigators suspect he let them starve.

Two endangered Mexican wolves have been removed from the wild and are undergoing testing to determine if they’re behind a string of livestock deaths in southwestern New Mexico.

The New Mexico Land Office says it will be lowering fees this year for agricultural leases on state trust land.

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A Kentucky man is accused of stealing more than $75,000 of beef tenderloin over several months.

Environmentalists are taking over a faded Nevada mining town, but many locals don’t seem to mind.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed into law legislation to keep operating a state board that pays a federal agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and elk.

Several Israeli start-ups have joined a handful of companies around the globe trying to develop lab-grown meat, something they see as a solution to the needs of the world’s growing population and demand for food.

The meat-processing company that sued ABC News for calling its beef “pink slime” now is producing “100 percent ground beef,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s labeling board.

The meat-processing company that sued ABC News for calling its beef “pink slime” now is producing “100 percent ground beef,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s labeling board.

Don’t cattle do better in colder temperatures? That’s a question University of Minnesota Livestock Extension Educator Emily Wilmes hears in the wintertime.

South-central Iowa authorities are investigating after dozens of head of cattle were found starved to death on property near Osceola.

A ranch worker shot a wolf that was chasing cattle in an area of eastern Washington state where there are no known wolf packs.

Cattle are generally doing fine in spite of the winter weather. Their rumens are keeping them warm, said Travis Mulliniks, beef cattle nutritionist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.

The Nebraska Cattlemen's Association will soon be moving into a new building on a Lincoln street that the group would like to be renamed.

A rancher in Jackson County, Oregon who has had gray wolves eat his livestock is now using a lime-green inflatable dancing man to keep the predators at bay.

A federal judge has granted a northern Nevada woman’s request for a court order to protect her horse after she says it was stolen during a tribal roundup and fears it could be headed for the slaughterhouse.

A $200,000 budget request by Gov. Brad Little for an Idaho board that manages money to pay a federal and state agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and big game is sufficient for fiscal year 2020.

Florida officials are investigating an apparent increase in cattle deaths across the state, with investigators focusing on one particular brand of feed.

Florida officials are investigating an apparent increase in cattle deaths across the state, with investigators focusing on one particular brand of feed.

This year's National Western Stock Show is the "Year of the Yards," because after more than five decades in their current location, the yards will be moved next year to a new spot to the north.

Authorities say a south-central Iowa man was charged with livestock neglect after failing to euthanize a cow whose partially delivered calf was frozen.

Authorities say gray wolf OR-7′s Rogue Pack has killed another cow at ranch southwest of Crater Lake, Oregon, marking the seventh confirmed livestock kill attributed to the pack since late October.

North Dakota's biggest rancher organization is walking back its opposition to a plan by Gov. Doug Burgum to expand a military training center.

Much of the western U.S. is also experiencing drought. But Missouri is the only Midwestern state with such severe conditions with suffering corn crops and hay in short supply for cattle.

A tractor operator who was killed in a wildfire that scorched 70 square miles in little more than 24 hours in the Pacific Northwest appears to have died trying to restrain it, police said.

Ongoing drought and wildfires have cattle ranchers in at least five Southwestern U.S. states scrambling for hay or pastureland, while others are selling off some of their herds.

The amount of moisture received across the US southern high plains since October has been ridiculously low. Forecasters warn of intensifying drought and wheat crop losses.