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President Michel Temer called Brazil's scandal over the sale of expired meat an embarrassment Tuesday as more countries suspended some meat imports from the South American nation.

A farmer in Idaho has died after becoming entangled in a mixer wagon.

Texas ranchers are facing at least $21 million in agricultural damages from wildfires that blackened more than 750 square miles in the Texas Panhandle last week.

A South Dakota judge has dismissed ABC anchor Diane Sawyer from a defamation lawsuit over the network's reports on a beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime."

A Cody, Wyo. company is seeking about $940,000 in financial help from the state so it can beef up sales of its jerky products.

Governors in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico are asking for grazing restrictions to be lifted on CRP acres. 

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Winds are expected to slow down Wednesday, but weather conditions are still not ideal for emergency crews battling wildfires in four states that have killed six people and destroyed hundreds of square miles of land.

Emergency crews on Tuesday struggled to contain deadly wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land in four states and forced thousands of people to flee their homes ahead of the wind-whipped flames.

Wayne Hage’s son Wayne N. Hage has been ordered to pay $587,000 and remove any livestock he has on federal lands by the end of the month. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas says he also has to show by mid-April that he has complied.

Ammon Bundy was brought to the federal courtroom in Portland from Las Vegas, where he is in custody awaiting trial on charges he led armed gunmen to block a federal cattle roundup near his father’s Nevada ranch in April 2014.

A bull that apparently escaped from a slaughterhouse has led police on a wild chase through New York City streets.

Colorado livestock could be eating hemp under a bill that passed the state Senate Tuesday.

Witness testimony is beginning in Las Vegas for six defendants accused of taking up arms to stop a federal roundup of cattle near Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014.

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A federal judge in Nevada is considering crucial rulings about what jurors will hear in the trial of six defendants accused of stopping U.S. agents at gunpoint from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's ranch in April 2014.

Mars says a miscommunication with a subcontractor led to a defective batch of its Skittles, reportedly on their way to becoming cattle feed, ending up scattered across a highway.

President Donald Trump’s vow to accelerate construction of a “contiguous, physical wall” along the Mexican border is slamming into a Washington reality _ who’s going to pay for it and how?

A Nebraska chicken processing plant is under scruitiny for possible water contamination risks down river in Iowa.

Wyoming may have its first USDA licensed packing plant.

A longhorn herd is part of a beta testing program of a 'Fitbit' like chip tagged to the cattle's ear and transmits bio-data through a smart phone app.

The owner of a now-closed beef-jerky maker is being sued by the federal government for firing an employee who tried to call 911 to help a co-worker with a severed thumb.

Supporters of cattleman and anti-federal government figure Cliven Bundy are protesting a presidential decision to give national monument protection to public land where Bundy grazes cows near his southern Nevada ranch.

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R-CALF has been ruled in favor against the USDA on the use of beef checkoff funds.

Chipotle co-CEO admits customer service is poor at half of the burrito restaurants.

Tyson Foods is planning to create a venture fund that would develop innovations for feeding the globe.

A pair of bulls in Montana have tested positive for brucellosis.

A bull on the loose stopped traffic on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia during a brief taste of freedom before meeting its demise, but not as planned.

The mood was somber as ranchers from western South Dakota met in Fort Pierre to discuss ways to limit beef imports and protect the cow-calf operators.

Texas ranchers have 600,000 more cattle and calves than they did two years ago, according to the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. Packing plants have less competition and plenty of cattle to choose from, so they've dropped the amount they're willing to pay for wholesale cattle.

The fear of bovine tuberculosis spreading has deer hunters dealing with strict inspections in Indiana.

A small packing plant in Oregon has been cited for inhumane slaughter practices.

More cows, and even bison have been mysteriously killed and butchered in North Dakota pastures.

Europeans could end up buying more of Nebraska's beef under a series of agreements signed during a state-sponsored trade mission earlier this year, officials said Thursday.

Chipotle's first burger store will open this week in Ohio as the company continues working to expand its offerings and win back customers after a series of food safety scares.

A lawsuit over the beef checkoff is being heard in the U.S. District Court of Montana.

Three wolves in Wyoming are being pursued by wildlife officials after repeated attacks on cattle.

Cattle have been shot in North Dakota with both a gun and arrows.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement that requires a kosher meat processing plant in northeastern Iowa to pay a $43,000 penalty.

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, correspondent Jim Avila and the network are asking a South Dakota judge to dismiss a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit over the network's reports on a meat producer's lean, finely textured beef product, which critics dubbed "pink slime."

Tyson Foods Inc. will pay $1.6 million to settle federal allegations of hiring discrimination at six plants in Arkansas, New Mexico and Texas.

A northern Missouri man was sentenced to two years in prison without parole for cattle fraud schemes that cost his victims $262,000.

A Nebraska company has found a way to make dry cattle feed pellets from an ethanol byproduct without adding any binding ingredients.

Authorities in Vermont say a New Hampshire truck driver hauling milk struck and killed a cow over the weekend.

A judge has ruled in favor of a meat company accused of mistreatment of Somali Muslim workers.

New Hampshire lawmakers are revising legislation that created a meat inspection program in the state five years ago but hasn't been fully implemented due to a lack of funding.

Wildlife officials have stopped trapping for a group of wolves suspected of killing livestock on private land near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Investigators say a Houston-area police officer and three other men have been arrested in a cattle rustling investigation.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is pushing back against a local judge's recommendation to deny the agency a warrant to inspect the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Gainesville, Ga. for worker-safety violations.