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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has awarded Sand County Foundation a three-year grant to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture among private landowners in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan watershed.

Optimism that has built in feeder cattle markets in the second half of the year has been enhanced and consolidated with the fed cattle market breaking out and moving sharply higher in the last two months of the year.

Colorado State University will receive grants totaling nearly $1 million to study ways to reduce the risk of feedlot heart disease (FHD), a disease which has increased in recent years.

Cash bids were scarce last week with packers facing shortened slaughter schedules the next two weeks. Cash prices were $2 lower in all regions.

Lawmakers may have left town, but centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) left no doubt that he cannot support President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan, imperiling the president’s agenda.

Alfalfa is the third-highest crop for economic returns in the U.S. and is a feed source for that can reduce the need for costly nutritional supplements when cattle are primarily feed other types of diets.

A mistrial has been declared by a federal judge in Denver overseeing the trial of 10 current and former chicken company executives charged with price-fixing and bid-rigging.

APHIS is providing more than $200,000 dollars in Farm Bill funding to support developing movement decision criteria for sheep and cattle grazing public land allotments during a potential foreign animal disease outbreak.

Mindset separates abundance thinkers, Tom Field, Paul Engler chair of agribusiness at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, told attendees at the American Hereford Association educational forum in Kansas City.

Fierce winds across Kansas this week sparked a slew of wildfires, as some ranchers lost their homes, barns and livestock. Around Paradise, Kan., there are some ranch families who say there is nothing left.

Through genetic potential, sensors from the environment, and actual practices, producers can predict when an animal is going to be finished or when the animal is going to be optimum in its marketing.

Hurricane-force winds and dry pastures resulted in multiple wildfires in western Kansas on Wednesday. The Kansas Livestock Association is coordinating relief efforts for affected ranchers.

China has agreed to resume imports of Brazilian beef following more than three months of suspension due to two atypical cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) were discovered in Brazil.

A Colorado rancher was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in a cattle ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 100 investors of nearly $5 million.

From droughts to hurricanes to wildfires, this year has offered a little of everything when it comes to weather.

U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and Trust In Food sign letter of agreement to collaborate through Trust In Beef Program to empower beef producers.

The American Hereford Association reports the breed experienced notable growth and increased use of Hereford genetics in the commercial cattle industry.

To improve efficiency of cow-calf operations, it is imperative to identify cattle and maintain accurate production records. Freeze branding is relatively stress-free and causes little or no damage to the hide.

Although red meat exports are on a record pace in 2021, shipping delays and obstacles remain a major concern for exporters and their international customers.

The Association says both are widely supported across the U.S. cattle and beef industry.

Incorporating Brahman genetics into cattle herds amid changing environmental temperatures in the southwest has one Texas A&M AgriLife team researching the physiological differences to enhance beef quality.

Fox News founder and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch has purchased the 340,000-acre Beaverhead Ranch in Southwest Montana from Koch Industries.

Kansas beef producer Philip Weltmer, recognized as the BIF Commercial Cattleman of the Year for 2021, also serves on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and is the current co-chair of the Nutrition and Health Committee.

California could see monumental rain and snow this week. The powerful storm is expected to drench the West Coast, as forecasters say the system could bring a month's worth of rain in a matter of days.

For the first ten months of the year, total U.S. cattle imports from Mexico are down 23.4 percent year over year, following a decrease of 32.4 percent in October compared to last year.

Senate leadership’s timeline for the BBB proposal is just before Christmas, according to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin is calling for a strategic pause for the vote, delaying it into 2022.

The U.S. House passed an extension of Livestock Mandatory Reporting, or LMR, called a vital transparency tool producers already have at their disposal and cannot afford to lose.

Economic advisors to the White House suggested Friday that America's large meat packers have used their market power to drive up consumer prices while underpaying farmers resulting in a huge jump in net profits.

Cattle feeders found softer demand from packers last week, resulting in a $2 per cwt. decline in cash prices. Holiday slaughter schedules the next couple of weeks will likely prevent any price gains until the new year.

Beef export values are on pace to exceed $10 billion in 2021, with exports to three Asian set to top $2 billion each. Pork exports remain on a record pace.

Two major gifts to West Texas A&M University totaling $5 million will help ensure the continued excellence of the University’s meat science program.

Persistence Creek Farm of Faulkner has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Maryland Leopold Conservation Award®.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is awarding more than $16.3 million to 64 projects with states, universities and other partners to strengthen programs to protect animal health.

Corporate commitments are a response to consumers and investors.

The House passed legislation providing for the first major update of U.S. International ocean-shipping laws in more than two decades. That comes as the nation continues to grapple with bottlenecks at its ports.

On Wednesday the U.S. House voted to pass two NCBA-supported pieces of legislation that are critical to providing producers with greater transparency in the cattle markets.

December has started off on a high note in the fed cattle sector and all of us on the cattle side of the supply chain should be made well aware of what’s ahead in 2022.

November employment data was called disappointing despite the unemployment rate dropping slightly. Retaining workers has become difficult even as employers raised pay, which eventually gets passed along to consumers.

Marie and Glen Nader’s Witcher Creek Ranch in Modoc County has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 California Leopold Conservation Award®.

Topper Thorpe, CattleFax' General Manager/CEO for more than 30 years, passed away on Dec. 1, 2021. Under Thorpe's leadership, CattleFax grew to become the premier cattle market information and analysis service.

His warnings have gone largely unheeded, while wild pigs rapidly expand across Western Canada, with no nationally coordinated science-based containment strategy in place. For Brook, it’s a recipe for disaster.

The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are seeking comment on the pre-2015 WOTUS rule published in the Federal Register.

​Low Carbon Beef, LLC, a cattle certification program that enables cattlemen to earn premiums by reducing carbon emissions, announced it has secured approval as a USDA Process Verified Program Service Provider.

A Transylvania County jury found animal activist Wayne Hsiung, who was arrested in 2018 for allegedly stealing a goat, guilty on Dec. 6 of felony larceny after a breaking and entering and felony breaking and entering. 

The effect of winter weather in terms of frost damage to cattle and calves was less of a problem than expected, according to a survey of producers, veterinarians and feedlots conducted by Oklahoma State University.

Researchers at Purdue University successfully developed an on-site BRD test that provides results within an hour. The team has steadily advanced the point-of-care technology to address the disease.

The Franken-burger is coming, and we must act now to protect consumer confidence and ensure a level playing field, says TSCRA president Hughes Abell, Austin, Texas.

Tyson Foods said Monday it will give approximately $50 million in year-end bonuses to its frontline, hourly workers. These one-time bonuses will be based on tenure and range from $300 to $700.

The Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service to address questions about labeling of lab-grown protein products.

At the end of November, 69 percent of the U.S. was abnormally dry or worse with over 53 percent in some degree of drought. This could result in another severe round of cow liquidation in the first half of next year.