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The state of California is reportedly interested in buying the historic N3 Ranch, an 80-square-mile ranch within an hour’s drive of San Francisco.

The founder of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary is newsworthy because she’s a rancher turned vegan, but her ideas that she can “rescue ranches” with fundraisers and donations is both alarming and absurd.

Severe weather inevitably means management challenges and higher costs for producers but may also have market impacts if poor conditions are widespread enough.

A recent study that didn’t condemn red meat drew outrage from numerous self-proclaimed health authorities. But a prominent M.D. has now weighed in with the opposite opinion.

Designed to identify superior Hereford-influenced feeder cattle, the Hereford Advantage program now offers additional benefits to add value to feeder cattle.

The trial of a California rancher accused of “large-scale animal cruelty” has ended with a jury hopelessly deadlocked.

Ranchers have more opportunities to receive added value for their calves than other segments, and panelists at the Range Beef Cow Symposium discussed how to accomplish such goals.

Last week was one of the last chances for cattle feeders to push the market up to the $120-plus price range. Three packers were in the market to buy cattle by feeders chose to settle for steady money.

Steers and heifers sold at auctions this week steady to $3 lower. AMS said with the holidays and the end of the year fast approaching, many auction markets saw heavy runs of cattle.

Sharply higher carcass weights have boosted beef production, though another round of winter weather hitting parts of cattle feeding country may temper that in the last few weeks of the year.