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Federal officials have approved a Northern California company’s plans to take over a shuttered slaughterhouse that was at the center of a major beef recall.

South Dakota’s former economic development director used his public position to help his future private employer get a bigger grant for a struggling beef processing plant, according to a state audit released Thursday.

Managing forage and water goes a long way toward profitability.

USDA’s annual cattle inventory report confirmed what the industry had been suspecting for the past year — another year of contraction.

Higher cash prices and lower feed costs have pushed cattle feeding profits past $250 per head, a margin unthinkable just a few months ago.

Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter, according to the latest federal statistics.

Already the world’s leading destination for U.S. beef variety meat, Egypt was the scene of a recent U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) seminar targeting top chefs from the Middle Eastern country.

Kansas State University will host the 101st annual Cattlemen’s Day on Friday, March 7 in Weber Hall in Manhattan, Kansas.

Lower feeder steer prices were most apparent on the Southern Plains as farmer-feeders in the Northern Plains kept prices steady.

A congressman says federal officials have launched a criminal probe of a Northern California slaughterhouse that recently recalled more than 8.7 million pounds of beef.