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Today’s livestock headlines and expert perspectives serving cattle producers, processors, nutritionists and the greater livestock industry.
An Australian woman is making her mark on the usually male-dominated cattle buying industry to keep her family’s business afloat.
There was some red during the trading day on Tuesday, but in general the cattle markets have remained strong since Oct. 23.
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What should have been good news for the grain and oilseed markets ended up having the opposite effect as we ended the week down, sharply down some cases says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
The cattle herd is finally recovering from the severe drought that the northern Plains experienced earlier this year. This drought is still a reality, hitting portions of South Dakota hard.
As grain prices remain fairly stagnant, momentum is gaining in the cattle complex. Cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) are on fire this week after hitting contract highs. It’s the livestock sector carrying agriculture’s balance sheet the latter half of 2017 - a trend that could continue to wrap up the year.
Harvey may not have dealt devastating blow to Texas ranchers
Buying grain to feed livestock can be expensive, but there are ways to protect your risk and reduce market volatility.
Florida Farm Bureau is working to assess farm damage from Hurricane Irma.
Swollen populations of federally-protected wild horses roaming 10 Western states are starved and damaging rangelands, Utah and U.S. government officials said at conference Wednesday, an invitation-only meeting that mustang-protection advocates say is promoting the slaughter of an icon of the American West.
The time to start pregnancy checking spring calving cows and heifers is here or just around the corner for cattle producers across the country.
Get a behind the scenes view of shipping cattle from the Youngmeyer pens in the southern Flint Hills of Kansas.
Wildfires have burned wide swaths of the western U.S. the past week forcing evacuations of communities, cattle to move pastures and highway closures.
Texas agricultural officials fear thousands of cattle may have died in the aftermath of Harvey, resulting in losses to ranchers of tens of millions of dollars.
Forest Service using new tech for post-fire work in Montana
North Dakota’s largest livestock group and its biggest corn organizations have launched efforts to help ranchers devastated by a summer of drought.
Jury refuses to convict 4 in Nevada ranch standoff retrial
‘Significant’ amount of ranches affected, industry group says.
The Latest on an Arizona rancher’s effort to get an identical cattle brand revoked by the courts.
America’s cattlemen are among those hoping the North American Free Trade Agreement remains firmly in place, and that any modifications to the agreement are minor.
The ranchers bringing back the iconic beast have a healthy, trendy, profitable meat—and, some say, an answer for global warming.
A federal judge sentenced a Phoenix man Wednesday to 68 years in prison for his role as a gunman in a standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up cattle near the Nevada ranch of anti-government activist Cliven Bundy three years ago.
Washington is home to a minimum 115 wolves in an estimated 20 packs. But 11 of those packs are bunched up here, overlapping grazing allotments in the Colville National Forest.
A northwest Washington farmer charged in April with starving his animals to death has avoided felony convictions and will get several surviving cows back.
A blue-green algae outbreak in an Oregon reservoir has killed 32 cattle.
More than 100 dairy cows and calves are believed to have been killed after a fire broke out in a large barn on a farm near the Canadian border in northern New York.
Cattle markets are continuing to stay interesting, and producers might have found some footing.
Mandatory Country Of Origin Labeling (COOL) is back in the news. Dropped after WTO rulings and predictions of financial losses, the controversial labeling issue has resurfaced in a lawsuit against the USDA.
Several devastating fires are currently raging in the western U.S.—and hot and dry weather will only exacerbate wildfire danger through the weekend.