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What would P.T. Barnum say today? Every day brings news that there really is a sucker born every minute.
While we applaud the court’s dressing-down of PETA, we must recognize the influence they and other like-minded groups have cast on consumers.
New technologies will never be in short supply. Some will forever change how we raise top quality cattle and beef.
Baxter Black is back this week on U.S. Farm Report.
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.
The sudden death of more than a dozen cows leads a Kansas ranch on a frustrating odyssey.
Farm state legislators have asked for a review of whether the acquisition of National Beef by a Brazilian company threatens the U.S. food supply.
Buffalo gnats, or black flies, were blamed for deaths of cattle, horses and deer in Arkansas earlier this year. Now researchers want to quantify the risks and see what control efforts were effective.
Cricket flour is reportedly one of the novel protein sources PepsiCo is testing for use as an ingredient in snack foods such as Cheetos and Quaker Granola Bars.
In her research report, Chesney Reeves, a high school student from Central City, Neb., says coccidia was present in 100% of the pens tested and in over 50% of the samples from every pen.
A feedlot in southeastern Washington has settled a fine imposed by the state after allegedly failing to manage air pollution.
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NCBA encourages USDA to look beyond modifying “standards of identity” in order to provide adequate protection for beef producers and consumers.
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.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says supply and demand factors led to the dramatic cattle price decline from 2013 to 2016.
New supplements offer value but producers need to determine costs and potential returns for practices they adopt
The addition of the two Cattle Empire yards boosts Friona Industries to the nation’s second-largest cattle feeding entity.
Whether you measure ranch output by the animal unit or the acre, market weight is undeniably one of the primary factors in cattle profit/loss equations.
USDA’s July 2018 cattle on feed estimate was the largest July 1 inventory since the series began in 1996.
Summer often brings a few infectious ailments to beef cows. Common problems include eye infections and foot rot. Treatment of affected cows will often involve the use of antibiotics, so remember VFD rules.
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.
A Missouri man admits to running a $4.7 million Ponzi scheme involving a cattle investment fund where no cattle were ever bought.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were full of posts about #CowAppreciationDay on July 10.
A grizzly bear in Montana has been euthanized following the discovery that it likely killed four cattle.
An amendment to limit and reform checkoffs that had the support of the Humane Society of the United States failed to make its way into the farm bill.
University of Missouri Extension will offer cattlemen a bus tour of cattle operations in Kansas and Oklahoma Aug. 6-9.
The summer heat helps move meat, especially beef for grilling.
Cattle producers are invited to attend a field day at the Mingo Farm in St. James, Mo., to learn how to use natural shade to improve their beef operation.
“We have no idea what it is,” Bruce Auchly, information manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said. “And we won’t until we get the DNA tests back.”
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