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Six men have been charged in two separate cattle thefts at a Florida pasture, and authorities are trying to find eight missing cows.
An East Texas lassoed a 10-foot alligator and wranglers crawled atop the massive reptile’s back after it got too close to the landowner’s cattle.
In a Kansas meat packing town immigrants are being offered free translators for driving exams through a volunteer program.
A multitude of wildfires rolled its way across the High Plains in early March and destroyed acres, homes, livestock and took the lives of countless livestock and people. The Texas Panhandle was an area hit hard by the wildfire.
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that most of the Dakotas are experiencing drought conditions that experts say are harming farmers and cattle producers.
Fireworks are often reserved for Independence Day on July 4th, but for cattle markets they help describe meteoric rises and sudden bursts in prices.
PE investments push Daniel Dantas’s fortune to $1.8 billion.
By May 18, more than 600 donations had been made online or by mail totaling more than $350,000.
A judge called a New Hampshire man a “bully vigilante” and sentenced him Wednesday to more than seven years in prison for his role organizing armed backers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after a standoff with U.S. agents in 2014.
Wild weather in the Corn Belt in the beginning of the month flooded freshly planted fields and dumped inches of snow on Kansas wheat. Farmers were expecting to see a bump in prices, but failed to see any reaction in the markets.
Brazil was plunged back into a political crisis reminiscent of last year’s impeachment saga following reports that President Michel Temer was embroiled in an alleged cover-up scheme involving the jailed former speaker of the lower house of Congress.
Demand is leading the charge in livestock markets, says Naomi Blohm of Stewart-Peterson.
Cattle stranded by flooding in California are being fed with a helicopter.
Lauren Neale is a producer from McMinnville, Tenn., who is focused on developing the marketing strategy for her family’s vertically integrated cattle business.
Supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons are holding a protest outside a rural Nevada prison facility where defendants in a 2014 standoff with federal agents await trial in federal court in Las Vegas.
Animal rights activists don’t want a new meat research facility to be built at Colorado State University.
Cattle ranchers in the Great Plains have been struck with another heavy blow after a weekend blizzard left countless cattle dead and thousands struggling to feed in Oklahoma and Kansas. This setback comes two months after the March wildfires tore through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi helped stem meat scandal.
A Kansas cattle buyer and his company have been cleared of all criminal charges after a federal judge found prosecutors did not present enough evidence at trial for the case to go to the jury.
Deep snow is melting into Western mountain streams, but some farmers and ranchers on the high plains are struggling amid a lengthy dry spell and the aftermath of destructive wildfires.
Farmers from the mid-South to the Great Plains are counting their losses and making plans to replant after a tumultuous storm brought deadly flooding to double-digit snowfall.
Sage grouse are benefiting from land going into CRP in Washington.
The Grisby family near Ashland, Kan. continue to handle the aftermath of last month’s Starbuck Fire.
There is no discussion in Wyoming about banning a device designed to kill coyotes by spraying cyanide when triggered, a state official said.
Tyson Foods will pay $3.2 billion to add packaged sandwich maker AdvancePierre to its stable of processed food brands.
Feds stumble again with split verdict in Bundy standoff case
Jury resumes deliberations in Bundy ranch standoff trial
An effort to promote more local beef production and reduce the state’s reliance on imported meats has received a six-figure investment from a Hawaii-based venture capital fund.
Farmers dismayed that USDA delays fair practice rule
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