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The North American Meat Institute said the Biden Administration’s proposed rules for the Packers and Stockyards Act could limit the abilities of the meat industry to respond to consumer demand regarding sustainability.

Producers may now report unfair or anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry industries using a new online tool.

More than 70% of the country is still covered in drought. And while the latest winter storm was packed with needed moisture for some areas, it didn’t blanket every area needing moisture to restore depleted soils.

USDA’s cattle inventory report confirmed contraction is taking place in the U.S. As economists weigh in on what the latest numbers may mean, one veteran economist thinks cattle prices could remain strong through Q4.

One of the first lessons Penn State’s Tara Felix tries to teach newbie dairy beef feeders is that cattle raised for beef need grain, not forage.

Breeding a subset of the dairy herd to beef sires is a growing trend in the U.S. dairy business.

Simply producing a black calf if not enough if the dairy industry wants to make permanent inroads into successful crossbreeding.

JBS SA agreed to pay $52.5 million to settle litigation accusing meat-packing companies of conspiring to limit supply in the $63 billion-a-year U.S. beef market in order to inflate prices and boost profit.

Rep. Garamendi says the USDA partnership with the Port of Oakland “isn’t going to solve the problem” because shippers deliver product to the U.S. and leave ports with empty containers.

The USDA January 1 cow herd inventory, published this Monday, confirmed a 2% decline in the beef cow herd, along with a 1% decline in feeder cattle supplies.