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Summer often brings a few infectious ailments to beef cows. Common problems include eye infections and foot rot. Treatment of affected cows will often involve the use of antibiotics, so remember VFD rules.
A rancher in Utah nearly suffered a devastating loss when 32 cattle he loaned to a rodeo arena were poisoned via rat poison being dumped in a water tank.
A ranch neighboring the seventh largest landowner in the U.S. is on the market for $6,500 per acre.
A Missouri man admits to running a $4.7 million Ponzi scheme involving a cattle investment fund where no cattle were ever bought.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were full of posts about #CowAppreciationDay on July 10.
A grizzly bear in Montana has been euthanized following the discovery that it likely killed four cattle.
An amendment to limit and reform checkoffs that had the support of the Humane Society of the United States failed to make its way into the farm bill.
University of Missouri Extension will offer cattlemen a bus tour of cattle operations in Kansas and Oklahoma Aug. 6-9.
Cattle producers are invited to attend a field day at the Mingo Farm in St. James, Mo., to learn how to use natural shade to improve their beef operation.
“We have no idea what it is,” Bruce Auchly, information manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said. “And we won’t until we get the DNA tests back.”
Oregon ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr., and his son Steven, are among those President Trump is considering for presidential pardons.
A ground beef recall has been issued for a natural beef product originating from Texas.
A California ranch nearly the size of San Francisco is being offered for $31 million.
Launched in 2015, Crow Cow claims to be a unique, “curated ranch to table service” that gives consumers access to “a quality of meat not available in stores.”
Missouri might be the first state to enact legislation that requires labeling of plant-based and lab-grown meat to be clear when compared to meat from livestock. But why and how did this legislative effort begin?
A Kentucky cattle company and veterinarian are alleged to have shipped more than 60,000 cattle without proper health inspections and falsifying documents for at least 600 different certificates.
A juvenile wolf has been killed in Washington after its pack was found repeatedly preying on cattle grazing federal land.
A former ranch employee has been accused of digital cattle rustling in Texas after falsifying records in emails and impersonating another person in emails.
R-CALF says it has filed a reply in Montana’s federal district court regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s opposition to the group’s motion to expand the scope of its beef checkoff lawsuit.
Who slashes farmland acreage by three-quarters, jettisons a machinery fleet, and upends field practices, yet watches profits rise by 70 percent? Meet Del Ficke and a less-is-more farming approach.
Low-stress weaning—regardless of how we do it—begins with how we gather and bring in the cattle. If we don’t do it properly, the cows and calves are in panic mode before we even have them in the corral.
One of Arizona’s busiest stockyards lost $3 million in fraudulent cattle sales at the hands of an employee, federal prosecutors say.
Wildlife officials in Washington have approved a kill order for wolves that have been preying on livestock. This is the second time this has happened in less than a month.
A male wolf in Washington has been killed by wildlife officials after its pack preyed on cattle three times in August.
A rancher from Montana was sentenced to two years in prison and must pay back $2.1 million to a bank he defrauded out of money for cattle loans.
A man who stole a pickup and gooseneck trailer from a deceased rancher in Oklahoma has been sentenced to serve time in prison.
An article by Consumer Reports this week shows again, how complex scientific information can be misrepresented in order to influence the reader’s beliefs about the meat industry.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a kill permit for a wolf pack responsible for killing at least four calves this summer.
In the seedstock business, the bar is higher than in a commercial herd. Registered breeders need more from their cows than just an acceptable calf.