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Another summer of grazing has passed at the Bechtel Ranch.

South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals reported 220,000 cattle on feed on Aug. 1, up 5 percent from last year.

USDA’s August Cattle on Feed report said July marketings were down 0.7%, July placements up 1.6%, and the number of cattle on feed up 1.6% at the start of August.

Distilled urine from female cattle currently fetches at least as much as milk in India.

Protein supplementation of low-quality, low protein forages results in a “positive associative effect”.

A 1,200 mile drive by an agriculture economist reveals crop and pasture conditions are doing well.

No producer should be shut out of competitive bidding simply because the calves are not identified adequately.

Heat and humidity could lead to heat stress this week.

Cattle producers capture value from pasture to plate.

Leaders in the northwest Iowa town of Cherokee want to see another company make use of the former Tyson Foods meat-processing plant just outside town, but they say the food company is making it hard to find a new tenant.