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Today’s livestock headlines and expert perspectives serving cattle producers, processors, nutritionists and the greater livestock industry.
Forage management and progeny predictability are keys to good stocker operations.
As beef-on-dairy becomes more of the standard, disconnects between dairies and feedlots continue to challenge collaboration and performance.
NDSU’s livestock economist encourages producers to concentrate on the cash market and the fundamentals.
How Bloody Buckets Cattle Co. is building on legacy and adopting new tools to find new opportunities.
While the reintroduction of wolves has led to significant challenges for local ranchers, some say they are willing to deal with the animals if they will return to their natural habitat.
APHIS confirms a New World screwworm case in a 22-month-old bovine transported from Veracruz to a feedlot in Nuevo León.
Research and expert insights point to meaningful benefits for immunity, antioxidant protection and calf performance.
In addition to increasing carcass counts, wolves decrease reproduction rates, weaning weights, calf health and human well-being — costs often uncompensated or uncounted.
With increasing insecticide resistance and the emergence of new tick and tick-borne pathogen species, veterinary entomologists are more critical than ever.
Digging into how regenerative grazing can net healthy soils and healthy bottom lines.
The company’s Fort Morgan plant employees are benefiting from its innovative housing investment.
Logan Pribbeno manages his operations with a CFO mindset.
Three ways to ensure you are building a herd that works for you.
How this California operation is turning genetics and data into profits by raising higher performing beef-on-dairy calves with its own Angus bulls.
Winter infestations build fast and spread even faster. Dr. A.J. Tarpoff offers insights for veterinarians dealing with lice this season.
Ranchers in the Pacific Northwest are using old and new tools to prevent and recover from wildfires.
The Wine Glass Ranch is more than a family operation. It’s a blueprint for the future of sustainable beef production.
From forage testing to heifer development, K-State’s Jason Warner shares the top 10 management practices producers should be mindful of in December.
The use of regenerative practices at Stoney Creek Farm has lowered their costs and improved their profitability, but its also shaped their faith journey.
While many ranchers turn away at the word sustainability, California rancher Mike Williams’ involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef changed his perspective.
Jon and Jackie Means were presented the 2025 Certified Angus Beef (CAB) Sustainability Award. To them sustainability is family, legacy, caring for what you have and managing for profitability.
Strong breeding seasons start with strong postpartum cows. Winter calving offers the chance to get both right with attentive management.
Analysts agree recent data does not show signs of heifer retention.
UNL’s Wilke shares tips for managing cattle during the cold, snow, ice and wind.
Oklahoma State’s Mark Johnson explains the importance of understanding your production system when making breeding and selection decisions.
The announcement to close the Lexington, Neb., plant and transition to one shift in Amarillo shocked the beef industry. While local impacts will be significant, analysts urge producers to remain calm as the market fundamentals steady following the reaction.
U.S. agricultural exporters depend on the binding nature of USMCA provisions to access its closest markets and make sales, lawmakers wrote in a letter to Ambassador Greer.
When we focus only on the most obvious clinical sign or lesion, we risk missing the broader forces shaping cattle health. Stepping back reveals patterns we can’t see up close.
The company will end operations in early 2026 in the plant that employs nearly 3,200 people and can slaughter almost 5,000 cattle a day and convert its Amarillo, Texas, beef facility to a single, full-capacity shift.