CAB Insider: Raucous Start to 2019 Beef Supplies

A grass-fed beef processor is offering ground beef sourced from individual cattle.

Over past two decades, ethanol production has increased, and in turn, the byproduct of this industry (distillers grains) has become more available. 

The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.

Moisture came to about two-thirds of the country last week, dropping heavy precipitation from the southern Great Plains northeastward into the northern Appalachians. But many areas remains in significant drought.

Swarms of black flies are impacting livestock farmers in Arkansas this spring, reports University of Arkansas Extension. The population explosion is to blame for the deaths of a bull and cow in Arkansas County.

Hurricane Irma cost Florida’s cattle ranchers $238 million. That’s based on preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)