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“Many trial courts in Texas have been resistant to allowing landowners to fully challenge a private entity’s use of eminent domain,” says Texas lawyer James D Bradbury. “This opinion changes that.”
Testimony before the Senate committee on Energy and Natural Resources highlighted the importance of public lands ranchers during the pandemic, including their role in resurging the American economy.
A U.S. District judge in Florida has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Burger King alleging deceptive advertising for the way the company cooks their plant-based Impossible Whopper.
There’s a time when pounds aren’t everything. For one northeast Missouri family, it pays to focus on high-quality Angus genetics and market them on the grid, capitalizing on pounds of quality.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Aggie Beef 706 program will be held virtually. Ranchers, educators and allied business people are invited to learn the same valuable concepts traditionally taught in Beef 706.
Pinkeye can result in increased labor, the need to purchase antibiotics, decreased weaning weights and lower prices paid for animals with scarred eyes.
Establishing cover crops following grain production is a proven tool to protect soil, reduce erosion, improve water quality and enhance soil quality.
Rejuvra™ herbicide was approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for controlling invasive weed species on rangeland, CRP land and natural areas, including grazed areas.
On the one-year anniversary of committing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s Global Compact and the Science Based Targets initiative, Alltech has released its 2020 Sustainability Report.
The U.S. beef industry is a forage-based industry and that one distinction from the pork and poultry industries will hinder any future vertical integration, says John Nalivka.
Cattlemen may someday use technology such as drones to digitize pasture management addressing variable pasture conditions and labor needed to develop actionable data-driven grazing management plans.
For the first time in its 38-year history the Iowa Governor’s Charity Steer Show (GCSS) will not be held at the Iowa State Fair. Due to the cancellation of this year’s fair Iowa State University will host the event.
Early pregnancy testing provides a number of benefits, and can be conducted as early as 30 to 45 days after the end of the breeding season through ultrasound, rectal palpation or blood-based pregnancy tests.
The program, which is virtual, is scheduled to run each Thursday from July 16 through August 27, at 12:30 p.m. CDT. Anyone in the beef industry is welcome to participate.
Cattle have an upper critical temperature 20 degrees cooler than humans. When humans are a little uncomfortable at 80 degrees and feel hot at 90 degrees, cattle may well be in the danger zone for extreme heat stress.
Cargill and TGI Fridays have teamed up to build Bold Heroes, a initiative designed to provide firefighters across the nation with TGI Friday’s frozen beef patties.
TSCRA director Carl Ray Polk Jr. says his group will “always embrace progress, but not when it comes at the expense of our members or when it violates our private property rights.”
Significantly higher volumes of Mexican imported feeder cattle were noted the last two weeks of May and throughout June which offset the lower volumes recorded through the first 4.5 months of the year.
A grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will allow North Dakota State University to study four rangeland management strategies that use fire and/or grazing as critical ecosystem processes.
Multiple trait selection is important for economic vitality. In this segment, Dan Loy shares how maternal traits are related to marbling and what that means for cattlemen.
Plant-based products are no longer on the menu at McDoanld’s in Canada, but the end of the test has not diminished the enthusiasm of leaders of the fake meat business.
Hide color and breed character are tools currently available to sort stockers, with little information about genetic potential. But is there a role genomics, or DNA, can play for the stocker operator?
The 44 Farms International Beef Cattle Academy is now offering scholarships to 2020-2021 program applicants. A total of $100,000 is available to cover up to 70% of tuition costs. Applications close on August 15, 2020.
Meat departments have reported double-digit dollar sales gains throughout the pandemic months of March, April and May, according to a national research and analytics firm.
The American Hereford Association is equipping members with knowledge and tools they need to be impactful marketers in all market conditions.
Bipartisan legislation to create new direct-to-consumer options for beef producers, processors and small meat markets without compromising food safety standards or market access is supported by NCBA.
Burger King® restaurants and Cargill are teaming up with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and ranchers within the Northern Great Plains to launch a three-year grasslands restoration program.
Valuable dinosaur fossils found on a Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land’s surface rights, not the owners of the mineral rights, according to a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Demand for calves with documented health records and backgrounded for 45 to 90 days has become so strong that auction premiums are receding while steep discounts may apply.
Agricultural Marketing Service reporters called feeder steers and heifers steady to $4 higher, with the strongest prices found in the North Central region.