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While global production climbed in 2025, the latest Alltech survey highlights a diverging landscape of North American contraction and rapid commercialization in Africa and Asia.

With algorithmic trading reacting to headlines in seconds, cattle producers must rethink how they measure, manage and survive price swings. From 30 to 300 head, producers are using LRP to secure a floor price while staying flexible in a volatile, high-value market.

Check out the Sterling Marketing Profit Tracker for week of April 18.

From sire influence to multiples, learn the primary factors that cause calving difficulty and why some issues tend to happen in clusters within a herd.

Joe Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek says live cattle futures held key support on Friday and are higher Monday but can the market retest the record highs?

Linnell cites lower marketings, reduced Mexican feeder flows and drought plus heifer retention as drivers of a tighter market.

Success in artificial insemination depends on execution. Learn why the Beef Reproduction Task Force emphasizes fundamentals over advanced technology to drive genetic progress.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins broke ground on a $750 million sterile fly facility in Texas and confirmed the border will remain closed until the New World screwworm threat is pushed back from the U.S. border.

In a candid conversation with Farm Journal, USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden says USDA’s message to fertilizer companies is simple: “Be part of the solution, don’t be part of the problem.”

Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle plunged late week after contract highs due to fears of the border reopening to Mexican imports.