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Wes Shoemyer, a Missouri farmer and speaker at last week’s “Rally to Stop The Stealin’” in Omaha, responds to critics of the #FairCattleMarkets movement.

From a seller’s perspective, the fed-cattle trade continues to improve, with last week’s numbers making it the third straight week of higher prices since September 9th.

The new frontier in nutrition research is the rumen microbe population, and new management practices have been shown to improve rumen health.

The cattle industry needs to make some bold, creative changes to ensure its viability, according to speakers at the Feeding Quality Forum held in Amarillo, Texas.

John Nalivka says Americans must look at the bigger picture and our relationship with China as we discuss this complex topic of tariffs.

Cash fed cattle continued a downward spiral driven by losses in CME Live cattle futures. Tyson announced its Kansas beef plant won’t be fully operational until January.

Cattle imports for July were lower than a year ago, but the total for the first seven months of 2019 are higher.

An Oregon judge on Friday dismissed a federal lawsuit related to the death of rancher Robert LaVoy Finicum, who was shot by Oregon State Police in January of 2016.

The lack of aggressive trade was noticed mostly in the south where cash trade could not get any higher than $1.00 last week.

“Economic and political order has become disorder,” Dan Basse, president of AgResource told attendees at the recent Feeding Quality Forum during his keynote address.