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President Donald Trump’s vow to accelerate construction of a “contiguous, physical wall” along the Mexican border is slamming into a Washington reality _ who’s going to pay for it and how?
Both fed cattle and feeder cattle markets traded at softer prices for the week.
Winter weather could continue to help drive cattle prices higher.
Fed cattle led the parade with cash prices $3 to $4 per cwt higher.
The volume of cattle and calves sold the week ended Jan. 13 was called the second largest in five years, with prices steady to uneven.
Wyoming may have its first USDA licensed packing plant.
Waste flows downhill, and that’s what worries folks in Hendricks, Minn.
Supporters of cattleman and anti-federal government figure Cliven Bundy are protesting a presidential decision to give national monument protection to public land where Bundy grazes cows near his southern Nevada ranch.
Feedlot marketings were up 16.6% in November, while placements rose 15%.
As America’s cow herd dropped to 60-year lows two years ago, ranchers saw an economic incentive to save and breed replacement heifers. Demand for the young females spiked, creating a profitable niche market which now appears to have flamed out.
The Fed Cattle Exchange is helping the beef industry by delivering another data point for price discovery through an online live cattle auction.
A ranch in Kansas needed a little help heading into the holidays, so they hired an elf. But he doesn’t spend much time on the shelf.
R-CALF has been ruled in favor against the USDA on the use of beef checkoff funds.
Polar Vortex Blasting U.S. Dealt a Short Life by Dueling Weather
Northern U.S. gets cold in a La Nina, while the South warms.
A majority of cattle producers in Iowa voted to reinstate a $0.50 per head checkoff.
Without a surge of beef moving off shelves in the retail sector, prices will have a hard time rebounding in 2017.
Only minor changes are projected by the latest WASDE report for beef production and cattle prices.
Sanderson Farms also among chicken producers to get request.
A pair of bulls in Montana have tested positive for brucellosis.
Commodities dropped 40-60% in value the past few years. How much longer will the slide continue?
Cattle prices have climbed to their highest point since August.
Tyson Foods is planning to create a venture fund that would develop innovations for feeding the globe.
Texas ranchers have 600,000 more cattle and calves than they did two years ago, according to the Texas Cattle Feeders Association. Packing plants have less competition and plenty of cattle to choose from, so they’ve dropped the amount they’re willing to pay for wholesale cattle.
The mood was somber as ranchers from western South Dakota met in Fort Pierre to discuss ways to limit beef imports and protect the cow-calf operators.
A bull on the loose stopped traffic on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia during a brief taste of freedom before meeting its demise, but not as planned.
The fear of bovine tuberculosis spreading has deer hunters dealing with strict inspections in Indiana.
Cattle prices went from record highs to record lows in just two years, and it has cattle producers searching for answers.