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Today’s livestock headlines and expert perspectives serving cattle producers, processors, nutritionists and the greater livestock industry.
A new study by the University of Nebraska shows that wildfires across the great plains region are becoming more frequent.
Six men have been charged in two separate cattle thefts at a Florida pasture, and authorities are trying to find eight missing cows.
An East Texas lassoed a 10-foot alligator and wranglers crawled atop the massive reptile’s back after it got too close to the landowner’s cattle.
A multitude of wildfires rolled its way across the High Plains in early March and destroyed acres, homes, livestock and took the lives of countless livestock and people. The Texas Panhandle was an area hit hard by the wildfire.
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows that most of the Dakotas are experiencing drought conditions that experts say are harming farmers and cattle producers.
PE investments push Daniel Dantas’s fortune to $1.8 billion.
A judge called a New Hampshire man a “bully vigilante” and sentenced him Wednesday to more than seven years in prison for his role organizing armed backers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after a standoff with U.S. agents in 2014.
Wild weather in the Corn Belt in the beginning of the month flooded freshly planted fields and dumped inches of snow on Kansas wheat. Farmers were expecting to see a bump in prices, but failed to see any reaction in the markets.
Demand is leading the charge in livestock markets, says Naomi Blohm of Stewart-Peterson.
By May 18, more than 600 donations had been made online or by mail totaling more than $350,000.
Lauren Neale is a producer from McMinnville, Tenn., who is focused on developing the marketing strategy for her family’s vertically integrated cattle business.
Supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons are holding a protest outside a rural Nevada prison facility where defendants in a 2014 standoff with federal agents await trial in federal court in Las Vegas.
Cattle stranded by flooding in California are being fed with a helicopter.
Cattle ranchers in the Great Plains have been struck with another heavy blow after a weekend blizzard left countless cattle dead and thousands struggling to feed in Oklahoma and Kansas. This setback comes two months after the March wildfires tore through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Deep snow is melting into Western mountain streams, but some farmers and ranchers on the high plains are struggling amid a lengthy dry spell and the aftermath of destructive wildfires.
Farmers from the mid-South to the Great Plains are counting their losses and making plans to replant after a tumultuous storm brought deadly flooding to double-digit snowfall.
Sage grouse are benefiting from land going into CRP in Washington.
The Grisby family near Ashland, Kan. continue to handle the aftermath of last month’s Starbuck Fire.
There is no discussion in Wyoming about banning a device designed to kill coyotes by spraying cyanide when triggered, a state official said.
Jury resumes deliberations in Bundy ranch standoff trial
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An effort to promote more local beef production and reduce the state’s reliance on imported meats has received a six-figure investment from a Hawaii-based venture capital fund.
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Ranchers and veterinarians will continue to determine the damage and clean up the mess for months to come after the wildfires that engulfed farms and ranches earlier this month. A young 4-H group in Meade County, Kan. is helping in their own unique way.
Veterinarians and livestock producers are assessing more than antibiotic use in southwest Kansas where a blaze swept through the high plains earlier this month.
Ohio farmers are sending hay, fencing materials and other supplies to Kansas to help ranches that were devastated by wildfires this month.
A farmer in Idaho has died after becoming entangled in a mixer wagon.
Governors in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico are asking for grazing restrictions to be lifted on CRP acres.