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U.S. beef exports through August are down form 2018’s record pace, yet exports still account for 14% of total U.S. beef production.

Both cash fed cattle and feeder cattle posted gains for the week ending Sept. 27, while wholesale beef prices saw significant declines.

When loads of stressed, high-risk calves arrive at the feedlot, it often makes economic sense to treat them all with antibiotics to prevent an almost-inevitable outbreak of bovine respiratory disease (BRD).

With seven weeks passed since the fire at Tyson’s Finney County, Kan. plant, the impacts and resulting ripple effects are clearer now and are fading as expected.

Tom Jones and his Hy-Plains Feedyard team keep feeding, learning and showing the way to better.

Art and Stacy Butler, Spring Cove Ranch, Bliss, ID, were recognized with the 2019 CAB Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award this week in Asheville, North Carolina.

The Western Watersheds Project claims the Interior Department is unlawfully withholding information from the public about a BLM grazing initiative announced in 2017.

Two Brooklyn meat wholesalers were charged this week for allegedly using counterfeit USDA stamps to misbrand “Choice” grade beef as higher-quality “Prime” and inflate the price.

Cattle feeders first began using mass treatments for newly arrived calves back in the 1970s, as a means of controlling outbreaks of respiratory disease or “shipping fever.”

All cattle feeding areas were able to take advantage of the packer’s need for cattle last week and cash prices moved higher.