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Cattle trade was light in all regions this week with prices steady to higher. USDA’s cattle on feed report put inventories up slightly with placements down 7% from last year, at the low-end of the pre-report estimates.
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This national award is presented annually to a producer to recognize their dedication to improving the beef industry at the commercial level.
The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) presented Cow Camp Ranch of Lost Springs, Kan., the Seedstock Producer of the Year Award during the group’s annual convention in Des Moines, Iowa.
No rancher wants to sell cow-calf pairs in May, but that’s exactly what’s happening at Stockmen’s Livestock Exchange in Dickinson, North Dakota. Extreme drought conditions brought 700 pairs to the sale last week.
The fallout continues from a ghost-cattle scheme as Rabo AgriFinance filed suit in federal court seeking to foreclose on Easterday family assets that have been in default for months.
A White House listening session with vice president Kamala Harris focused on broadband connectivity. Missouri farmer Meagan Kaiser was one of six participants and spoke to the struggle for farmers and rural businesses.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced a new tool in the war against feral hogs with the release of a new hog contraceptive bait entering the market this week.
JBS USA said Wednesday the “vast majority” of its processing plants were operational after a Memorial Day weekend cyberattack on its operations in North America and Australia.
The United Nations issued a warning this week as world food prices are rising at their fastest pace in a decade. Global food prices have risen for 12 consecutive months and now sit at their highest level since 2011.
The White House says President Joe Biden will address cyber attacks with Russia at a meeting later this month and won’t take any options off the table when responding to the recent cyberattack on meat producer JBS.
The head of Tyson Foods, Dean Banks, is stepping down after less than a year on the job. The company announced Donnie King is the new CEO, which makes him the fifth CEO of Tyson in the last five years.
The cattle industry’s unprecedented meeting was centered around meat packing margins and claims of market monopoly. The meeting among the six groups is now drawing a response from the meat packing industry.
An unprecedented meeting held in May among major cattle industry representatives, typically at odds, has produced plans for change and calls for answers from U.S. lawmakers. Keep up with the latest on this page.
A federal district court ruling, if left unchallenged, will result in a 2.5% loss in pork packing plant capacity nationwide and over $80 million in reduced income for small U.S. hog farmers, says economist Dermot Hayes.
Calls for change came to a head this month, as cattle groups held an industry-wide meeting made history. And the groups say the first meeting is just the start.
The disparity in cattle markets was a lead topic of discussion during Senate Agriculture Committee’s nomination hearing for USDA’s general counsel, with Senators promising to soon hold a hearing on livestock markets.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract a trio of threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal suffering.
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American Farm Bureau Federation sent a letter to the Biden administration saying the increase in undocumented immigration is severely impacting farm and ranch families, putting property and personal safety at risk.
The world’s largest meat producer was the latest victim of a cyberattack. And as the food chain relies more on automation and less on manual labor, cyberattacks may be a rising risk for the food chain.
One week after a cyberattack shut down meat packing plants in three countries, U.S. officials seized the cryptocurrency payment that was made during the Colonial Pipeline hack less than a month earlier.
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can produce toxins that are harmful to livestock, wildlife and people. The growth of this bacteria is aided by high temperatures.
JBS USA announced it has suffered an organized cyberattack that has affected servers supporting its IT systems in North America and Australia.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing to list the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The chicken’s habitat spans parts of five states, including Colorado, Kansas and Texas.
Australian and North American units of the world’s largest meat works were hit over the weekend by an organized cyber attack on its information systems, Brazil’s JBS SA said in a statement.
The dire drought situation is one USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey thinks could last through at least the remainder of 2021. Forecasts also point to a drier weather pattern returning for Texas and the Plains.
Demand for pork and grains is helping propel prices in 2021, and USDA is forecasting it to be a record year.
After JBS confirmed a cyberattack shuttered some of its processing plants, USDA’s daily cattle slaughter estimates revealed 94,000 head of cattle were processed on Tuesday, a drop of 27,000 head compared to last week.
JBS USA says it has invested $130 million to increase production capacities at two of its major beef processing facilities in Grand Island and Omaha, Neb., and announced annualized wage increases over the past year.