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Quality characteristics, tenderness and value of beef are similar from steers and heifers.
Uniformity or consistency may be desirable in both management and marketing aspects of cattle production.
Friday’s jobs report was somewhat encouraging. More people with jobs is positive for meat demand.
A San Francisco company has finalized purchase of the failed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen, S.D.
Look for record high beef prices to continue.
A manager of a Cabell County, W. Va., meat processing shop says 10 cattle belonging to customers have been stolen from the shop’s livestock pens.
Greeley, Colorado’s JBS USA meat-packing plant has promised to take steps to prevent animal cruelty after a worker struggled to kill an injured cow.
Federal officials have approved a Northern California company’s plans to take over a shuttered slaughterhouse that was at the center of a major beef recall.
A steer that made a break for it while on the way to slaughter in North Dakota has been adopted by a Michigan farm animal sanctuary and spared from the butcher knife.
Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.
There are more cattle on feed in South Dakota now than last year.
A bankruptcy judge has set a closing date for the sale of a failed South Dakota beef packing plant.
The challenge is the drug aids efficiency but raises incidences of death.
Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison, Iowa.
New research into the use of beta agonists released this week raises concerns about the animal health and welfare of feedlot cattle.
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.
A Utah company is recalling about 90,000 pounds of beef jerky products that were mislabeled and didn’t list on the packaging the ingredient soy lecithin, an allergen.
A North Dakota company has recalled more than a ton of beef franks due to misbranding.
Understanding the FDA’s December 11, 2013 announcement to remove “improve growth, gain, and efficiency” use of feed grade antibiotics.
For beef cattle prices to continue their record run, the 2014 U.S. corn crop will have to produce record yields, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.