Wyatt Bechtel

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

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Drought has had a widespread impact on all areas of the beef industry. To stay in business, water is the name of the game.
Managing forage and water goes a long way toward profitability.
If there are any lessons that can be learned from the past few years of sparse rainfall it’s that recovering from drought requires proper management.
The King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management is offering a new joint program with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association that will help recognize and cultivate future leaders of the beef industry.
The owners of a sale barn in Kansas have been charged with writing more than $2 billion in unfunded checks and wire transfers. Their alleged fraud scheme has lost banks millions of dollars and is impacting cattlemen.
Two bulls in a South Dakota beef cattle herd have tested positive for bovine trichomoniasis, also known as trich, a disease that can be economically devastating to cattle producers.
E. coli is responsible for forcing a recall on ground beef sold to restaurants primarily in the southeast and it could be related to a larger outbreak that has sickened 156 people in 10 states.
Burger King is starting a pilot project in 59 restaurants to start selling a plant-based Whopper and if successful the Impossible Whopper could be found in more than 7,000 locations nationwide.
Aaron Ogren, 30, of Exeter, Nebraska, has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty after more than 200 cattle died on a feedlot.
A recall has been announced by JBS and USDA after more than 43,000 lb. of ground beef was found to be possibly contaminated by extraneous materials, specifically, pieces of hard plastic.