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The border’s busiest cattle crossing — handling 43% of Mexican imports — prepares to resume operations following successful screwworm containment and the phased rollout at Douglas, Ariz.
Boozman declines to reopen the bill for amendments as Democrats keep pressing on SNAP cost share. Year-round E15 and mandatory COOL make the cut, now the question is whether the Senate can find floor time before the end of the year.
Feeders 25 miles from the shuttered beef plant say the ripple effects are showing up in their basis, their bids and their bottom line.
An online memorial auction on Sept. 4 honors Adam Massman, the 17-year-old quarterback and cattle showman who touched lives from the football field to the showring.
From inspections and dips on the Mexican side to EID tags and state vets at the border, officials outline a cautious ramp‑up from a few hundred head to full capacity.
The Bureau of Reclamation released its final environmental impact statement. Farmers in the lower basin worry it could mean cuts to their water supply, while upper basin farmers are seeing higher hay prices and cattle sales.
USDA outlines protocols and a $25 million sterile fly investment as feedlots, cow-calf producers and cattle groups weigh in on what a phased restart of Mexican cattle trade means for the market.
As extreme drought fuels a fire that has jumped rivers and state lines, ranch families and volunteer fire crews are directing the flames away from ranches the best they can.
After nearly 20" of spring rain stalled fieldwork, a fourth-generation Kansas farm is racing 13-hour days to make up a lost June.
Short on hands and mourning a loss, the Chapman family keeps a five-generation legacy rolling near Lee’s Summit.