Wyatt Bechtel

Wyatt Bechtel is associate editor for Beef Today and Dairy Today.

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Cattle supplies are on the rise with more cattle being placed in feedlots leading to some discrepancies in the futures and cash market.
The Cattle on Feed report has been on a continual increasing trend since December 2016 and the current April inventory is the highest for the month in 12 years.
A man in Texas went to jail after he admitted to stealing six head of cattle during a drunken conversation and two of his fellow cattle rustlers are in trouble, too.
JBS USA has recalled approximately 35,464 lb. of raw ground beef following the finding of hard plastic in contaminated beef.
The legal case for an investment fraud scheme involving the resale of cattle is starting to come together as a man posing as a veterinarian has admitted to his participation in the scheme.
Marty Robert Maahs, 33, turned himself into the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department on April 12 after a warrant was issued for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million from a bank loan involving cattle.
A feedlot in southeastern Washington has settled a fine imposed by the state after allegedly failing to manage air pollution.
A rancher in northeast Oregon has been granted the right to kill two wolves by state officials following an attack on calves in his cow herd.
A rancher in Utah nearly suffered a devastating loss when 32 cattle he loaned to a rodeo arena were poisoned via rat poison being dumped in a water tank.
A ranch neighboring the seventh largest landowner in the U.S. is on the market for $6,500 per acre.