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Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison, Iowa.
Corbitt Wall gives the Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending February 28.
USDA’s annual cattle inventory report confirmed what the industry had been suspecting for the past year — another year of contraction.
Higher cash prices and lower feed costs have pushed cattle feeding profits past $250 per head, a margin unthinkable just a few months ago.
Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter, according to the latest federal statistics.
A congressman says federal officials have launched a criminal probe of a Northern California slaughterhouse that recently recalled more than 8.7 million pounds of beef.
Corbitt Wall gave the weekly USDA Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending Feb. 21.
Managing forage and water goes a long way toward profitability.
Lower feeder steer prices were most apparent on the Southern Plains as farmer-feeders in the Northern Plains kept prices steady.
South Dakota’s former economic development director used his public position to help his future private employer get a bigger grant for a struggling beef processing plant, according to a state audit released Thursday.