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Gene editing is the use of modern molecular technology to precisely change the DNA sequence of an organism.

This week’s episode is all about challenges we face as American ranchers. Whether you agree or disagree with the viewpoints in this episode, have you made your story and voice heard to those who need to listen to it?

A rally in cash cattle prices lifted cattle feeding margins more than $100 per head and left packers mired in red ink. Pork margins have held firm in the mid-$40s for six weeks.

Multiple moves per day is easier than folks think, according to this rancher

The largest feedyard north of the Rio Grande is under construction allowing Blackshirt Feeders to combine data, technology and innovation in a closed loop aligning dairies and semen providers with the feedyard.

USDA’s newly proposed rule change, Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets, sparks controversy from industry groups.

The Meat Institute says the proposed rule change to the Packers and Stockyards Act is attempting to set meat production back by encouraging litigation and limiting how livestock producers can market animals to packers.

New proposed USDA rule will better protect farmers, ranchers, and other covered market participants by making clearer how prohibitions on unfair practices will be enforced under the Packers and Stockyards Act.

Direct-to-consumer beef sales require investing more time and effort in marketing compared to commercial cattle operations, which market through livestock auctions.