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Today’s livestock headlines and expert perspectives serving cattle producers, processors, nutritionists and the greater livestock industry.
Most of cattle country has had abundant to excessive moisture this year—as evident from my travels from Oklahoma to Montana.
When the rinderpest virus broke out in Africa in the 1890s, death loss in cattle herds across eastern and southern Africa reached 80 to 90%, triggering a massive famine, with millions of people dying across the region.
Incidences of both diseases can easily occur in periods of dry weather after floodwaters recede.
Tyson Seeking to Boost Food Brands as It Hunts for Acquisitions
Early one morning, you find your phone and e-mail swamped with messages about an undercover video supposedly documenting animal abuse on the farm.
Japan’s imports of U.S. beef jump on strong demand and higher yen.
Ranchers in western Texas want local culinary students to know more than how to cook a good steak.
Livestock producers struggle to rebuild their operations with few resources to date
U.S. Is Said to Propose Freezing Mexican Trucks Out of New Nafta
Wild fires burned in Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas earlier this year, destroying thousands of acres in its path.
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March 6, 2017 is a day Beaver County, Okla., rancher and volunteer fire chief Bernie Smith will always remember. That day wildfires tore through the central and southern Plains. Nearly 2 million acres across four states were scorched by fast moving fires that month. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben and national videographer Russ Hnatusko report over Smith’s recollection of the fire, his future and why he’s thankful this Thanksgiving.
Bluefield Technologies plans to use methane-sensing satellites.
Workable free trade relationships are critical to U.S. cattle producers.
The rancher from western Wyoming wears tan overalls pulled over a U.S. ski team jacket, and is every bit as versed in the nuances of hay farming as the subtleties of snow grooming.
Several cow shootings are being investigated in South Dakota.
Flooding from Hurricane Harvey is slow to drain in some areas of southwest Louisiana one week after the storm made landfall. Agricultural fields consisting primarily of rice and soybeans are suffering from the most damage.
Snow is falling across a large portion of Montana today, bringing relief to areas struggling to control multiple wildfires. Some mountain passes could see up to 8” of snow by Saturday.
Study: Montana’s average temperature continues to increase
Following two days of falling cattle futures prices, Joe Vaclavik, president of Standard Grain, is calling the market moves a knee-jerk reaction to the latest Cattle on Feed report from the USDA.
JBS’s Joesley Batista Arrested in New Twist to Plea-Deal Scandal
Beef company seeking bank to advise on New York share sale as Jorge Brito plans $200 million offering of Inversora Juramento.
Could dinner talk help bust through a NAFTA impasse?
Minnesota company, Plains farm aid group set up hay convoy
More than one-third of Americans do not know that foods with no genetically modified ingredients contain genes, according to the new nationally representative Food Literacy and Engagement Poll we recently conducted at Michigan State University. For the record, all foods contain genes, and so do all people.
Nine months have passed since wildfires charred parts of the central and southern Plains during a three-day span of furious fire. Now, a proposed disaster relief package may offer more help to ranchers in need. The House recently unveiled a disaster aid plan to help cover some of the cost of hurricanes and wildfires the country faced in 2017. House Republicans are releasing an $81 billion disaster aid package, funding that’s nearly twice the request the White House made. The money could be split between a host of federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Agriculture. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben looks at how producers in Kansas and Oklahoma are recovering and still rebuilding. She talks with Dr. Randall Spare, a veterinarian from the Ashland Veterinary Center, and producers Jenny Betschart in Ashland, Kansas and Bernie Smith in Beaver County, Oklahoma.
The United States’ number one beef importer for value and volume is hiking its tariffs on U.S. beef products.
Last week, Japan announced it would raise tariffs on frozen beef imported from the U.S., and the tougher fees went into effect Tuesday.