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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.

Officials in the central Iowa town of Tama are optimistic that an idle beef processing plant will reopen soon and add hundreds of jobs.

Feedyards aggressively placed cattle on feed last month, with 1.65 million new arrivals during February, according to USDA.

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.

A bankruptcy judge has set a closing date for the sale of a failed South Dakota beef packing plant.

Corbitt Wall gave the Weekly National Feeder Cattle Summary report for the week ending March 21.

Knowing inputs and outputs on a cow/calf operation and understanding feed efficiency tools and concepts are vital to improving overall herd profitability.

Health officials have issued another recall for a food product processed by a Northern California slaughterhouse.

Merck Animal Health releases a statement in response to a Texas Tech scientist's article that raises concern over the use of beta agonists in beef cattle.

Tyson Foods has changed its plans and has decided to keep open its beef plant in Denison, Iowa.

The challenge is the drug aids efficiency but raises incidences of death.

New research into the use of beta agonists released this week raises concerns about the animal health and welfare of feedlot cattle.

The Primghar Community Center is the location of a March 25 meeting for northwest Iowa -area beef producers and agri-business staff.

Weakness in futures markets this week spilled over into the cash markets, yet traders noted boxed beef prices pushed significantly higher.

Record-high cash fed cattle prices helped boost cattle feeding margins over $280 per head last week.

Corbitt Wall gives the Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending February 28.

Cash fed cattle prices rallied $5 to $6 per cwt. higher on a live basis this week, and $7 to $10 higher on a dressed basis.

Fewer cattle on feed numbers imply lower fed cattle slaughter and beef production ahead.

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.

Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter, according to the latest federal statistics.

Higher cash prices and lower feed costs have pushed cattle feeding profits past $250 per head, a margin unthinkable just a few months ago.

USDA’s annual cattle inventory report confirmed what the industry had been suspecting for the past year — another year of contraction.

South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals had 240,000 cattle on feed on Feb. 1, up 7 percent from last year.

Corbitt Wall gave the weekly USDA Feeder and Stocker Cattle summary for the week ending Feb. 21.

Recent record-high cattle prices and lower feed costs could offer producers the profit incentives they need to start expanding their herds after U.S. beef cattle numbers at the start of this year reached their lowest point since 1951.

Higher cattle prices and lower feed costs have translated into tidy profits for cattle feeders.

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.

Northeastern Iowa cattle producers can learn more about an upcoming revision of a feedlot monitor software program at three meetings offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Beef feedlot managers, owners, employees and supporting industry personnel will learn the latest in feedlot health, nutrition, environment and economics at the 2014 Beef Feedlot Roundtables in Nebraska.

Latest update to CattleFax Mobile App offers new features for industry leaders at Cattle Industry Convention.

A Northern California company is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased and unhealthy animals without a full federal inspection, federal officials said Saturday.

Managing forage and water goes a long way toward profitability.

Cattle quality has been on the rise in Eastern Kentucky for several years now. Beef producers have a local stockyard to sell their animals, and now there’s a place for those cattle to be processed and sold to Kentucky consumers.

During the NCBA Cattle Marketing and International Trade Committee meeting at the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville this week, Ron Bryant, U.S. Ruminants division with Merck, recapped the five-step plan Merck developed with the cattle industry.

Cattlemen and women gathered today at the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Trade Show to hear CattleFax market analysts’ projections for the year ahead.

It is important to capture added value when it comes times to sell calves.

A Fort Worth beef processor is recalling nearly 16,000 pounds of beef products because they may be contaminated by E. coli.

How can the beef industry increase the percentage of superior carcasses?

The USDA feeder cattle report for the week ending January 31 confirmed the inventory drop showing cattle and calves nearly 2% lower than last year’s numbers.

National Beef Packing Company (National Beef) today announced plans to close its beef processing facility located in Brawley, California.

A yearling calf that escaped from a Butte, Mont. meat-packing plant had a brief taste of freedom before being shot as it made a break for the Interstate.

Ever wonder what happens between delivering a beef animal to a meat processing plant and eating a juicy steak or hamburger?

A California man who tried to steal a truckload of beef from a southwest Kansas slaughterhouse was sentenced Monday to a year and a day in federal prison.

U.S. feedlots unexpectedly increased the number of cattle purchased in December compared with a year earlier, a government report showed.

Both packers and feeders are operating with positive margins.

Can changes to a cow's energy intake during the second trimester enhance the quality of beef her offspring will produce? What effect might it have on the reproductive ability of the cow's offspring?

Cattle slaughtering in the U.K. dropped to the lowest level since at least 1970 last year, as herd sizes declined to the smallest in decades, the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board said.

Change and volatility are commonplace in today's agricultural markets, and those trends have been no different in cattle marketing for nearly 20 years.